. 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 …

This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of …

mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via …

This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and … significant correlations between family disruptions prior to the age of 16 and personality development in early childhood …. Parental divorce has the largest negative effect on a child's personality development. Family disruptions have smaller effects …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on …

pandemic of spring 2020. A high percentage report disruptions in the patterns of family life, manifesting in new work patterns … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …

In this paper we explore the effects of a labor market reform that changed the statutory minimum working age in Spain …-compulsory education level increased after the reform.In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for both … genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter increase is …