. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples … analysis, the optimal tax rates on secondary workers in the family are much lower than those on primary earners. Indeed, our …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

be sub-optimal. However, investing in joint assets, which the marriage contract specifies are to be divided in the case … higher value of marriage. Empirically, we show that quasi-exogenous variation in access to collateralization leads to more … specialization, and that wealth has become a more important determinant of marriage in response to policies that have made marriage …

are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage can shape various dimensions of the society ranging from …

rates, work hours, earnings, marriage and spouse characteristics and family income to various shocks. Marital status has a …We examine what determines the family income that men and women experience over their adult lives. To this end, we … estimate a dynamic model of earnings, nonlabor income, fertility, marriage, and divorce. We use the model to address a number …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …