We provide new evidence on the the cyclical behavior of household size in the United States from 1979 to 2010. During … building a model of endogenous household formation within a real business cycle structure. We use the model to measure how much …

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving … the observed gender differences in expected earnings profiles. We also find no evidence that gender differences in …

existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …

composition of occupations and in the employment distribution of workers that produced the observed reductions in segregation were …