mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit estimation since it is unlikely that the conditions necessary for … recovering the underlying individual preferences from household choices are satisfied in this setting. We propose a conceptual … relationships for household members of different ages to test the implications of our conceptual model. Respondents' choices take …

a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence … greater share of the household resources. Using instrumental variable and propsensity score techniques to control for … children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health …

fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

We provide new evidence on the the cyclical behavior of household size in the United States from 1979 to 2010. During … building a model of endogenous household formation within a real business cycle structure. We use the model to measure how much …

IFR for COVID-19. The estimated age-specific IFRs are very low for children and younger adults but increase progressively …

This paper studies household financial choices in four euro area countries. The goal of the analysis is to understand … household income and asset market returns, has a differential impact on individuals within and across countries. Generally, poor … France while expansions have a larger impact in Italy and Spain …