The aim of this investigation is to analyze theoretically how a marriage make their decisions and what are the implications on significative variables, such as fertility rate and labor supply of the members. So, we design a simple familiar decision model under four different approaches:...

The voluntary supply of collective goods by nonprofit institutions has deserved little attention in the Public Choice literature, and the clasical nonprofits approach does not consider nonprofits supply as a collective decision, although individuals, either as consumers or as donors, are in the...

A common assumption, often accepted by regulators – that individuals act only in their narrow self-interest – is false. Evidence from both the natural and social sciences suggests that most people are strongly motivated to cooperate and help one another. Organizations (such as Toyota and...

This work proposes a dynamic conceptual structure of the life cycle of families that includes four stages: 1. Formation of the home: marriage creation, 2. Birth and raising of children, 3. Stage of academic formation of children and 4. Retirement, end of life cycle. A fundamental element of the...

Traditionally we have studied the problem of child labor as the counterpart of school attendance. However, most studies have ignored the potential importance of household work performed by children at home. Given that children from certain age may perform these activities, and because child...

The reorientation occurred in the socioeconomic, politic and institutional development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, since 80's decade, provoke significant transformations in the regional rural spaces. The socioeconomic bipolarization is one of the most remarkable phenomena in...

This paper analyses the recent evolution of the Spanish Labour Market at national and regional level with the aim of understanding the current situation in the supply side labour market, and showing how it has been evolving during the last years. The purpose of our work will contribute to note...

The objective of the work has been to identify the most optimal model to estimate the demand of real rents, imputed rents, housing maintenance, housing acquisition and consumption of electricity and fuels of Spaniards for the period between 1980 and 2015. After the estimation and analysis of the...

En este trabajo se analiza la evolución en la demanda de cultura, educación y ocio para los hogares españoles. El periodo estudiado comprende de 1980 a 2015, periodo caracterizado por profundos cambios en la forma de consumir ocio en nuestro país. Los datos utilizados proceden de las cuentas...