Synthesizing Large-scale Household Composition Considering Family Type and Role in Household

Recent trends in family and household composition in Europe.

"This article attempts to give a broad overview of trends in family and household composition in Europe during the last few decades. The focus is on Western Europe. We look at the decreasing average size of the household and the family (section 2) and its demographic causes. The changing role of the traditional family is reviewed in section 3, while section 4 contains a discussion of non-tra...

Household Budgets, Household Composition and the Crisis in Indonesia: Evidence from Longitudinal Household Survey Data

Using panel data from Indonesia, the impact of the financial crisis on the welfare of households is examined. Contrasting consumption of the same households in late 1997 and late 1998, mean per capita expenditure (PCE) has declined by around 25% while median PCE has remained constant. The crisis has had its biggest impact on households in the top and bottom quartiles of the PCE distribution. Ho...

Household resources, household composition, and child nutritional outcomes

In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of grandparents when both parents have migrated. Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates whether household composition...

Household Composition and Housing Assistance

The living arrangements of public assistance recipients have been a concern of policymakers and researchers alike. Although the effects of welfare on household composition have been studied extensively, relatively little research has examined how housing assistance might relate to household composition. This research explores the relationship between housing assistance and household composition...

Household Behavior and Family Economics