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 …

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 … intrafamily relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model’s mechanism is that rising income leads to a …

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 … 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 …

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