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 …

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 …

This paper estimates a structural model of family retirement using U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS …

. Both issues are analyzed within the context of a formal model of family labor supply, in which returns to schooling accrue … altruism was weak may have eliminated much of the apparent increase in family income due to higher child earnings. We end with …

and how does it compare with the family's money in-come? How does the value of home production differ among families with … children? How does it changeover the family's life cycle? …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …

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 …

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 …