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The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...
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inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …
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We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at … application on the French Household Budget Survey. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; Rothbarth method ; cost of children …
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We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and … variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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Constructing pseudo-panel data from successive Current Population Surveys, this paper analyzes earnings inequality in husband and wife families over the life cycle and over time. Particular attention is devoted to the role of labor supply in influencing measures of earnings inequality. Compact...
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
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When comparing economic well-being using income or expenditures, an equivalence scale is often used to adjust for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not twice as much due to the economies of...
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What preferences do partners hold over their relative income within the household? We provide a flexible framework of preferences over relative income within the household that captures various motives, including inequality aversion and a preference for being the primary earner. We study the...
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Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...
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