children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the "marriage premium for children" is highest for children of mothers with … at age 25, the marriage premium is monotonically increasing with observed maternal age and education …

Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing … of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change … change in divorce law. Suicide rates are used as a quantifiable measure of wellbeing, albeit one that focuses on the extreme …

Over 18 million taxpayers are projected to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in tax year 1997, at a total … cost to the federal government of about 25 billion dollars. The EITC is refundable, so that any amount of the credit …) would increase labor force participation, but secondary earners would reduce their labor supply in response to an EITC. We …

when factors that affect tax liability are associated with race. We provide new evidence on racial differences in marriage … of income. We show that marriage rates are much higher among white adults than Black adults, which implies that two …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships …

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …

We examine the labor market consequences of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), comparing labor market behavior of … eligible parents in Wisconsin, which supplements the federal EITC for families with three children, to that of similar parents … in states that do not supplement the federal EITC. Data come from the 2000 Census of Population. Most previous studies …