We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with …This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power …

This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and …, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … idiosyncratic endowments in a way that suggests that parents have equal concerns, rather than efficiency motives, in allocating …

We analyze the effect of mothers’ and youths’ reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths’ transitions …-leaving. Youths reporting conflict with parents leave school and move out earlier than their peers, while conflict between parents is …

, specialization in the family will then make women do most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be broken: Both … affirmative action and family policy can make women spend more effort in the market, which can lead the economy to a non …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra … need for data on the time family members spend on domestic work as well as on labor supply. An approach of this kind is …