We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices
of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of …

Two dominant theories within family research foresee a long‐term decline in marriage,
fertility, and partner stability. They also assume that this “less‐family” scenario will be …

Like their counterparts elsewhere, more young Australians than ever are delaying the move
to establish residential independence from their parents. This paper reviews the developing …

The idea of a generation of young adults “boomeranging” back to the parental home has
gained widespread currency in the British popular press. However, there is little empirical …

Why do rising incomes not make people happier? Some argue that it is because we quickly
become accustomed to our new acquisitions. Others would say that it is because relative …

We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly
considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modeled …

We use survey data from Bulgaria and Hungary to investigate the determinants of whether
women intend to have a first or a second child and, if so, whether they intend to have the …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit
a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care …

How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug
around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which …

There are large and persistent gender gaps in many indicators of wellbeing across the
world. They include gender gaps in control over economic resources, education, earnings …