; provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have … changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households … replacement of what had been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing …

This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines … allocation within marriage. Prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, are assumed to foresee the outcome of BIM … marriage market is the first stage of a multi-stage game – in the simplest case, a two-stage game – that must be solved by …

;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

Despite the high levels of marital disruption in the United States, and substantial reliance on family-based health …

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples … analysis, the optimal tax rates on secondary workers in the family are much lower than those on primary earners. Indeed, our …

incorporating uncertaintyabout the outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utilitymaximization and the marriage market …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships … between marital patterns and such variables as age at marriage and schooling as the California population. However, one should …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …