Doepke, M.; Tertilt, M. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 1789-1891). 2016
. 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 …-run fluctuations and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …
