In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence …

people reported mostly donating the grant or using it to help family or friends as reported saving it (10–18 percent), with …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …

The past 25 years has seen substantial change in the social safety nets for families with children in the US and Canada … countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in … declined in both countries with more of the decline coming through market income in the U.S. and benefit income in Canada …

lowering future benefits. We explore the consequences, for older women, of eliminating the RET from the Full Retirement Age to … women in their mid-70s and older – ages at which the lower benefits from claiming earlier could outweigh higher income in … the earlier period when women or their husbands increased their labor supply …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …