.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in defaults from 2006 to 2008. Employing land topology-based housing …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …

that motivated the study. As a middle ground, we construct household-based measures of labor supply by within-household … aggregating answers to the usual weeks and hours worked questionnaire items. Household (H) measures are substantially different …

I use the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to analyze wealth trends from 1983 to 2013. Asset prices plunged between … mean wealth over the 1983-1989, 1989-2001, 2001-2007, 2007-2010, and 2010-2013 periods, and implicit savings were negative … savings rates between the top one percent and the middle three wealth quintiles. Over 1983-1989, the higher savings rate of …