household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from …

Low-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household … native workers in household service occupations due to LAWA, which offset the decline in immigrants in these occupations and … caused the cost of household services to be relatively uninfluenced by the passage of LAWA. …