Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michele - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 133-175
household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from …
