Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …