increased their interest in gender-related topics …

Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which …

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

relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any … limited role for child earnings, education, savings rates, and asset allocation in mediating the relationship. Indeed, savings …

This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child … penalties -- can be explained by the biological links between mother and child. We estimate child penalties in biological and … adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …