Why do countries with a higher prevalence of disease grow much more slowly than their seemingly-similar neighbors? While Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) document a relationship between disease and growth for colonies and argue that the colonization process is an important determinant of...

In the mid-nineteenth century, almost 70 percent of persons aged 65 or older resided with their adult children; by the end of the twentieth century, less than 15 pecent did so. Recent theories have argued that the decline in intergenerational coresidence resulted primarily from an increase in...