converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …

household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by …

-ethnicity marriage of the household head has adverse implications for family income. The negative effect is robust to controlling for … lagged income and initial conditions, present when investigating the link with changes in family wealth, and persists in …