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 …

within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing … household level. The results indicate that transferring ownership rights to men increased household consumption of some male …-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male …

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The …. The "punishment effect" postulates that adult children may punish parents who fail to provide spousal care by not …

. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time … 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter …-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … empowered children within the household and allowed them to capture an increasing share of the household surplus over the past …During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the …

upward mobility is understated. Recent generations have higher welfare and are better off compared to their parents … welfare and lifetime resources at different stages of the life cycle. We compare these measures with traditional ones such as … performance of proxy measures is poor. Parents' expected lifetime resources are stronger predictors of many important child …

. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …