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 …

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 …

limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

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 …

-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments are likely to be biased because girls …

counterfactuals show that if green deposits could be offered at a 50 basis point interest rate spread, aggregate green investments in …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field … investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities … experiments targeted to low-SES families to explore the mutability of such beliefs and their link to parental investments. In both …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents … goals while satisfying basic desiderata such as supporting children in both of their families, equity between siblings …, neutral medical decisions, and not requiring higher contributions from parents with a lower salary …

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common …: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood …. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and adults, and economists have begun to estimate the causal relationship …