We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of … lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life …

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then …

, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors …

educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …