The OECD Family Indicators database was developed to provide cross-national indicators on family outcomes and family …

from their family of birth, rendering the equation of adoption one of subtraction, not addition. This article examines the … biological model of adoption that insists on mimicking the nuclear family—erasing one set of parents and replacing them with … another set of parents; and explores the history of adoption “matching”—requiring the new adoptive family to look identical to …

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …