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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w12908 |
来源ID | Working Paper 12908 |
The American Family and Family Economics | |
Shelly Lundberg; Robert A. Pollak | |
发表日期 | 2007-02-16 |
出版年 | 2007 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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 and education patterns for men and women; class divergence in partnering and parenting strategies; and the replacement of what had been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in family economics that attempts to explain these changes, we point out some challenging areas for further analysis, and highlight issues of commitment in two primary family relationships: those between men and women, and those between parents and children. We conclude by discussing the effectiveness of policies to target benefits to certain family members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12908 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570574 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shelly Lundberg,Robert A. Pollak. The American Family and Family Economics. 2007. |
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