transfers, rates of return, and marginal linkage of benefits and taxes for persons of different income levels and family status … security system for different family situations are treated: married versus single persons, number of earners in the family and … variation for different family situations and often dwarf amounts at stake for most families in the recent debates over income …

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately …

care use and its allocation among family members may become more discretionary and complex. Using two-year panel data from … the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2004 to 2011, we examine how the intra-family allocation of health care spending … responds to realized and anticipated changes in family economic status. We focus on the share of total family health care …

using panel data on pairs of matched family members from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. We … also show that family data can be exploited to investigate theories of job turnover, labor supply. and the industry … structure of wages. Our primary findings follow. First, there are strong correlations between the family incomes of relatives …

Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children …'s ability on the willingness of parents to transfer resources to them. Within-family differences also reflect the attitudes of … whether between-family differences exceed within-family differences. For an additive utility, within-family differences in …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed …-effects to control for unobservable characteristics of the family. The effects of divorce on the income and consumption of … considered. In the long-run (six or more years after the most recent divorce) family income falls by 40 to 45% after divorce, and …