important for explaining the labor market outcomes of adults. This evidence points to the importance of early (preschool) family … factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …

, controlling for family background, blacks are more likely to enroll in college than whites. This relationship is somewhat … understand what is driving these differences across the distribution of family background characteristics and why the …

is not an accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government and family choices. While the goals of the … abilities and family background. The results show that a higher percentage of Black schoolmates has a strong adverse effect on …

Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …

results also indicate that education is a powerful covariate of the timing of first marriage and that race is a powerful …

behavior. I find substantial change across periods in recipiency, large differences across children within the family, and a …