children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and …

that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued …

that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued …

children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … 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 …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and …

of government spending or in terms of restricted access to certain benefits. In the area of family policies, however, a … what extent economic consequences following separation and divorce in families with children have changed between the 1980s … and the 2000s in Germany and the United States. The second research question of the dissertation regards the differences …