An Economic Analysis of the Family

摘要: What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of family? This book improves our understanding how families and markets interact, why important aspects been changing in recent decades, respond to, are affected by, public policy. It covers a broader range topics with more consistency than previous studies, including all major theoretical developments field over past decade. John Ermisch builds his analysis on premise that standard analytical methods microeconomics can help us understand resource allocation distribution welfare family. Families dynamic institutions--and so author uses these same study family formation dissolution (including marriage, fertility, divorce) household formation, as well intergenerational transfers, production investment, bargaining between members. He also shows economic theories guide structure empirical analyses demographic related phenomena, such labor supply, child support, returns education. Examples studies apply theory provided throughout book. The most comprehensive up-to-date introduction an increasingly area research, one implications for policy, An Economic Analysis Family will be valuable advanced students researchers sociology, psychology, other social sciences.