poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … structural factors. Yet, structural factors, like the legacy of slavery, may be key to understanding how race and family … U.S. South. Results: There is an impact of the legacy of slavery on Black-White inequality in poverty even within family …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in …

This paper examines tax planning of married couples under separate taxation. A theoretical analysis uses a family … decision-model with a household public good to show that the secondary earner might veto against tax planning if the … realization of tax savings increases intra-household income inequality. The empirical analysis exploits a specific feature of the …

working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns … marriage wages. We decompose the changes in sorting patterns over the 47 years comprising our sample into structural …

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 …