Analysts often examine the black-white test score gap conditional on family income. Typically only a current income …

. 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 …

care use and its allocation among family members may become more discretionary and complex. Using two-year panel data from … the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2004 to 2011, we examine how the intra-family allocation of health care spending … responds to realized and anticipated changes in family economic status. We focus on the share of total family health care …

, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were … after controlling for economic forces. These policies also appeared to have an impact on family structure …

This paper examines an empirical regularity found in many societies: that family influences on the probability of …

. Both issues are analyzed within the context of a formal model of family labor supply, in which returns to schooling accrue … altruism was weak may have eliminated much of the apparent increase in family income due to higher child earnings. We end with …