-earner families becoming the norm, little research investigates the role of wives in family income mobility. How much does a wife …'s labor market activity matter in her family's ability to gain or hold its place in the income distribution of all families …? Are women's contributions to mobility weaker when children are present? Do more-educated wives make bigger contributions …

Education decisions determine a great part of future income. This paper argues that if education is financed by parents …' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents … schooling. Under strict incentives social mobility is not affected, but it increases if skilled parents have weak incentives and …

A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human … family size due to twin births and preferences for a mixed sibling-sex composition, as well as ethnic differences in the … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates …

econometrics use a treatment effects type interdependent estimation of endogenous participation (selection) in a daily working hour …

produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes …