We develop a flexible test for changes in the SES-mortality gradient over time that directly accounts for changes in … evidence for a change in the education-mortality gradient is not as strong and universal as previous research has suggested …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in … distribution of completed childbearing around a two-child mode and a decrease in childlessness; (2) the decoupling of marriage and …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

heterogeneous effects across family socio-economic backgrounds and initial skill endowments, with significant improvements in …

-Hispanic infant health disparities widen under MMC (e.g., the black-Hispanic mortality gap grows by 42 percent) and black mothers' pre …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …