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Conley, Dalton - 2005

occupational prestige is explained almost entirely by shared education, and sibling resemblance in family income is explained …

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Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family

Wiswall, Matthew - 2016

This paper studies how individuals "believe" human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices …

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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure

Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …, women in their 20s, and women with less than a high school degree. Fifth, the college gap in family structure has …

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Fortunate Families? : The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men's attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth...

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Efficiency in Household Decision Making : Evidence from the Retirement Savings of U.S. Couples

Choukhmane, Taha; Goodman, Lucas; O'Dea, Cormac - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Pareto Efficiency is a core assumption of most models of household decision-making. We test this assumption using a new dataset covering the retirement saving contributions of over a million U.S. individuals. While a vast literature has failed to reject household efficiency in developed...

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Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax

Ilin, Elias; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pitts, Melinda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married - using SCF and ACS data. Our measure incorporates all major and most minor U.S. tax and benefit programs. And it assumes clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the...

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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks

Coile, Courtney; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Su, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor … conditions or limitations who experience a hospitalization or surgery report "leaving a job to care for home or family" in the …

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Family Formation and Crime

Massenkoff, Maxim N.; Rose, Evan K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on …

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Intrahousehold Welfare : Theory and Application to Japanese Data

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas; Okuyama, Yoko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this paper we develop a novel approach to measuring individual welfare within households, recognizing that individuals may have both different preferences (particularly regarding public consumption) and differential access to resources. We construct a money metric measure of welfare that...

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