Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor; Short, Jacob; Regalia, Ferdinando - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2010
Between the mid 1970's and the beginning of the 2000's the share of single females grew dramatically in the U.S. (from 21% to 32%). So did the share of single mothers (from 10% to 14%). At the same time relative wages within and between sexes underwent huge changes. In this paper we measure the...