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This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Householders are distinguished principally along standard demographic lines--whether they marry, divorce, separate, or become widowed. Recently, new data have become available that place far more emphasis on the...
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Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are … positively associated with age-at-first-marriage. …
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fairly well understood, relatively little is known about their effects on marriage or child well-being. The authors review a … small number of studies that provide such information here. Their discussion of marriage is couched in terms of a …
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This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …
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Using data from the New Haven EPESE, we examine the relationship between family structure and the risk of first nursing …
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labor market outcomes are examined drawing on two rounds of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), a longitudinal …, often working in their own or the family business. Among those who remained employed, there was also a good deal of shifting …
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displace assistance that the unemployed receive from their extended family. Using data from a supplement to the Panel Study of …; twenty-nine percent of those receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits also receive cash transfers from their family or …
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authors analyze the determinants of program use among children in different family types. Using data from the 1992 Survey of … actually more likely than other family types to receive government assistance. The authors conclude by considering the …
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