. 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 handbook chapter focuses on important interactions between the family and culture. We discuss the wide range of … global variation in family institutions, variation which is in part sustained by cultural differences, and important recent … changes in family structures. The chapter discusses why different family institutions arise, when they persist, and what …

The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …, women in their 20s, and women with less than a high school degree. Fifth, the college gap in family structure has …

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 …

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 …