We examine what determines the family income that men and women experience over their adult lives. To this end, we … of important questions in labor and family economics, including the effects of education and unobserved permanent … rates, work hours, earnings, marriage and spouse characteristics and family income to various shocks. Marital status has a …

others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

family environment and genetic factors for children's outcomes. We describe the pros and cons of various approaches as well … by specific features of their family environment. We discuss a wide range of environmental features, including the …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …