This paper examines the relationship between the family and work histories of older women in the UK and their individual incomes in later life, using retrospective data from the first fifteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey. The associations between women's family histories and their...

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 09, Talking to Families in East London: A report on the first stage of the research, by Katharine Mumford, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport9.pdf

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 30, The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from seven industrialised countries by Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper30.pdf

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothers have an award or order but the type of award they...

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the...

The Family Resources Survey was used to identify the characteristics of the divorced population and two longitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were used to address the question 'who divorces ?'. The BHPS allowed the...

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorce during childhood have long-term consequences for the educational attainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, and parenthood behaviour in adulthood? We show that in most of these domains children...