The American Family and Family Economics

The American Family and Family Economics

The American Family and Family Economics The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work...

Psychology and Family Economics

A substantial increase in the availability of data on psychosocial traits in largerepresentative longitudinal samples has opened up new areas of research for economistsand new opportunities for collaborations with psychologists. As an example, I incorporatepersonality into alternative economic models of marriage, with individual traits associatedwith either productivity in home ...

Household Behavior and Family Economics

Economics, Nutrition and Family Budgets

Vol. 14 The National Food Survey of Great Britain households. From the nutritional aspect these families are of high importance, because they contained about a quarter of the children in all households surveyed. The annual average calcium intakes for these families can be obtained with a standard error of 0.8% so that differences between two sample annual averages must be just over 2% to achiev...

Economics, nutrition and family budgets.

Vol. 14 The National Food Survey of Great Britain households. From the nutritional aspect these families are of high importance, because they contained about a quarter of the children in all households surveyed. The annual average calcium intakes for these families can be obtained with a standard error of 0.8% so that differences between two sample annual averages must be just over 2% to achiev...