number of children. -- Household size ; living arrangements ; roommates ; economies of scale ; household public goods …The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically -from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this … decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …