, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were … after controlling for economic forces. These policies also appeared to have an impact on family structure …

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

. 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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …