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 size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model … 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 between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children. …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …

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 … more income elastic than public goods, as we document in the paper, an increase in income endogenously leads to smaller …