Economic Well-being and Household Size
Author: James Blaylock
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 8
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Author: James Blaylock
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Raymond Rockwell
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew J. Houtenville
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alejandrina Salcedo
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling expenditure share on household public goods, which endogenously makes household formation less beneficial and privacy more attractive. To assess the magnitude of this mechanism, we first calibrate the model to match the relationship between household size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back to 1850 by changing income. We find that our proposed mechanism can account for 37 percent of the decline in the number of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children.
Author: Richard Kerr
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward P. Lazear
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-07-29
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780226469669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo everyone who knows her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. No one knows that she was once Deidre O'Reilly, a troubled young woman whose testimony put a dangerous criminal behind bars. Relocated through the Witness Security Program to the sleepy town of Deep Haven, Deidre got a new identity and a fresh start. When Agent Frank Harrison arrives with news that the man she testified against is out on bail and out for revenge, Annalise is forced to face the consequences of her secrets.
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Smallwood
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christos Koulovatianos
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by household-size economies over time. This decline is the result of a demographic trend towards smaller-sized household units, rather than a change in the shares of aggregate disposable income earned by household types of different size. -- equivalence scale ; welfare ; demographic change ; Luxembourg Income tudy ; household size economies ; income distribution ; family economics.