Economics and Family Structures

Economics and Family Structures - Oxford Research Encyclopedias

“Family Types” defines and discusses the three broadly defined family types that are considered: the nuclear family, the stem family, and the complex family.

Economics and Family Structures - IDEAS/RePEc

In this paper, we review the economic literature onfamily types, focusing on nuclear, stem, and complex families.

Chapter 23: Family Structure – Demography and Economics

Family structure influences and responds to fertility, mortality, and migration. It influences and responds to economic pressures.

How Family Structure has Changed - Oregon Explorer

As marriage evolved in the mid- to late-18th Century into a union based on love, other economic, cultural, and political shifts in the U.S. and in other nations ...

family structure - and the economic mobility

FAMILY STRUCTURE INFLUENCES THE ECONOMIC MOBILITY OF CHILDREN. DIVORCE IS PARTICULARLY HARMFUL FOR CHILDREN'S MOBILITY. Relative Mobility. • Among children who ...

Reflections on “Family Structure and Child Well-Being: Economic ...

The fact that single-, step- and cohabiting-parent families continue to grow and the fact that they are associated with poorer outcomes for parents and children ...

Economics and Family Structures - Search eLibrary :: SSRN

In this paper, we review the economic literature on family types, focusing on nuclear, stem, and complex families.

DP16516 Economics and family structures - CEPR

Household decisions are one of the key elements impacting many dimensions of any economy. In this paper, we review the economic literature ...

IN BRIEF: The Wide Class Divide in Family Structure

The socioeconomic class gap in family structure contributes to widening inequality and reduced social mobility in the US. Families are a source of both ...

FAMILIES and economic mobility | Urban Institute

One pathway involves the link between socioeconomic status and family structure. This could reflect a causal relationship if marriage elevates parents' economic ...

How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality.

Evolution of family systems and resultant socio-economic structures

This study developed a multi-level evolutionary model of pre-industrial agricultural societies to simulate the evolution of family systems.

Economic family structure (for economic family) - Statistique Canada

'Economic family structure' refers to the combination of relatives that comprise a family. Classification on this variable considers the ...

Research Brief - Jackson State University

Overall, research has established an association between family structure and economic conditions. ... types of family structures and certain socioeconomic ...

Changing family structures play a major role in the fight against ...

The family structure in and of itself is an important factor in reducing poverty: children raised in single-parent families are nearly five times as likely to ...

The American Family and Family Economics

5) to explain the basic empirical patterns of family life.1 Accord- ing to Becker (p. 135), “[T]he main purpose of marriage and families is the production ...

Family structure and the economic wellbeing of children in youth ...

Growing up in a single-parent family can reduce the economic wellbeing of children through a number of channels. Many of the long-term economic effects of ...

From Marriage to Economics: Melissa Kearney Unravels 'The Two ...

Kearney began by highlighting a “dramatic shift” in family structure over the past four decades. The percentage of children growing up in two-parent households ...

The Link between Family Structure and Wealth Is Weaker Than You ...

We conclude that the deeper causes of differences in both family structure and wealth are structural or systemic or due to other unobservable ...

Economic Inequality and Changing Family Structure

Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment: Implications for the level and trend in poverty. Focus, 26(2), 21-26.