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Families, labor markets, and policy

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo


Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent developments in each area. Chapters cover Culture and the family; Mating markets; Household decisions and intra-household distributions; The economics of fertility: a new era; Families, labor markets, and policy; Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility; The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists; An institutional perspective on the economics of the family.


1 April 2023


Published in Handbook of the Economics of the Family (2023), Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena, North Holland


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This Chapter is part of the centre's Labour programme.