household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the … intrafamily relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model’s mechanism is that rising income leads to a … household size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model …

, especially when parents had lower levels of education, and slightly less occupational mobility. To analyze the returns to … education, earnings equations were estimated using the Heckman selection model. The education of youths and their parents had a …