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Living arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen...
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construct a rich structural model of saving behavior for retired single households that accounts for this heterogeneity, and we …
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Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will be alive (joint life expectancy) and the expected...
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This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-in-differences methods to take...
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I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has …
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.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday) decision of single mothers and tests whether this impact differs between welfare … a 6 percentage point increase in the probability of single mothers working at standard jobs. When the impact of …
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to family status transitions. For both single individuals and married couples who do not experience a death or divorce …
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Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition … they believed their classmates would not see their responses, single and non-single women answered similarly. However …, single women reported desired yearly compensation $18,000 lower and being willing to travel seven fewer days per month and …
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1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and …
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1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and …
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