Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The … "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of …A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the "marriage premium for children" is highest for children of mothers with …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live … together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents …

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 …

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 …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

-identifying youths. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we explore the relationship between marriage equality and …Since the landmark ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2004, the legalization of same-sex marriage … argue that marriage equality will generate important health benefits not only for adult same-sex couples, but also for LGBQ …