| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15477 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15477 |
| Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000 | |
| Alejandrina Salcedo; Todd Schoellman; Michèle Tertilt | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-11-05 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Living 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. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Macroeconomics ; Macroeconomic Models ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15477 |
| 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/573153 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alejandrina Salcedo,Todd Schoellman,Michèle Tertilt. Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000. 2009. |
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