children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on …, it is the biological relationship between the children and any male in the household that primarily determines how the … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure …

differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …