Manacorda, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 4 (2006) 4, pp. 800-829
More than 80% of Italian men aged 18–30 live with their parents.We argue that one contributing factor to this remarkably high rate of cohabitation is parents' tastes for coresidence. In order to investigate the role of parental preferences, we estimate the effect of exogenous changes in...