“...What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why...”

“...Using a mixture of economic and demographic analysis, this book studies the changing patterns of family formation over the last twenty years. A strength of the...”

“...What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why...”

“...There is growing evidence that differences in children's intellectual, emotional and behavioural development by parents' socio-economic status emerge at early...”

“...We use household survey data from the UK to study how close middle-aged men and women in partnerships live to their parents and their partner's parents. We...”

“...A recent article by Gray, Stockard, and Stone contended that the increase in the proportion of births to unmarried women since 1974 in the United States was...”

“...BACKGROUND Conventional studies of intergenerational social reproduction are based on a retrospective design, sampling adults and linking their status to that...”

“...This paper presents a model that provides conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment...”

“...It is plausible that people take into account anticipated changes in family size in choosing where to live. But estimation of the impact of anticipated events...”