old in England and the United States. We find a strong and positive association in family background variables including …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals … rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and … political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a …

welfare receipt across generations has created a culture in which welfare use reinforces itself through the family. Others … these claims. In this paper, we investigate the existence and importance of family welfare cultures in the context of Norway …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …'s educational attainment. We develop an empirical strategy to identify these effects. We show that the coefficient on family size in …

. 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 …

family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel … model of parenting styles that highlights the importance of competition within the family. The key intuition is that the … the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has …