: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family … attainment by 5 percentage points and earnings by 14 percent, while reducing their likelihood of marriage by 4 percentage points …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

Despite the high levels of marital disruption in the United States, and substantial reliance on family-based health …

"demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

exceeding the family's tax liability is returned in the form of a cash refund. Advocates of the credit argue that this … changes caused by federal tax policy, and by cross-sectional variation in wages, income, and family size. We use both quasi …'s labor force participation by over a full percentage point. Overall, the evidence suggests that family labor supply and pre …

marital status, time until first marriage, and duration of first marriage. The results indicate that in general, drug users … are more likely to be unmarried due to a delay in the age at first marriage, and shorter marriage durations. The findings …

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family … whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures of child health, we find that … mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family …