more income elastic than public goods, as we document in the paper, an increase in income endogenously leads to smaller … number of children. -- Household size ; living arrangements ; roommates ; economies of scale ; household public goods …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

statistically significant effects of both children's and parents' income on the departure probability. We interpret this positive … parents' income effect as a signal for inter-household transfers. Finally, we distinguish by gender and find that while the … Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) by the Bank of Italy. The empirical study is performed by cross-section probit …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …