others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … order to account for family-level unobservable confounders and employ multiple specifications including a dynamic model that …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

in life. But the underlying neolocal family formation behavior was the same in both colonial North America and the areas …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …

This paper examines U.S. family exchange and support, its levels and trends. The paper points out the importance of … demographics and geographic mobility in affecting the amount and form of family exchange. It then considers family economic … family altruism and risk sharing. The paper paints a very pessimistic picture. Demographic, geographic, and economic …

effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been … augmented with information from hospital medical records, we find that the health shock increases the likelihood of homelessness … three years later, particularly in cities with high housing costs. Homelessness is defined using both a traditional measure …

Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels have a … variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this …