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inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …
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Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …
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family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …
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estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …
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which began in December 2007. In particular, we examine how the cyclicality of the response of program caseloads and family …
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This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little...
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with them from acquiring the language ("leaning" outweighs "learning"). Whether family members learn from or lean on each …
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employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … factor in modeling family outcomes …
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This paper investigates the application of the three-parameter, Coale-McNeil marriage model and some related hyper-parameterized specifications to data on the first marriage patterns of American women. Because the model is parametric, it can be used to estimate the parameters of the marriage...
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I argue that the trend toward single households among retired men 65 years of age or older has been ongoing since 1880. When coresidence is measured by the percentage of elderly men living in the households of their children or other relatives, fully 57 percent of the decline in coresidence...
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