Using a large, U.S. dataset it is shown that children are more likely to receive needed mental health specialty …. Marriages characterized by high conflict conform more closely to the unified household model. The paper then presents a model of … household decision-making consistent with these results that incorporates both objective determinants of bargaining power as …

for poor families with children, it contains a variety of attributes that should give us pause. Its presumptions regarding …

In the United States, household wealth is unequally distributed. While facts about the distribution are readily …, when controlling for parenthood, strong evidence was found of a family gap in household wealth accumulation, with single … mothers and fathers economically disadvantaged in comparison to adults without children. Yet, it was fiound that single …

Teen out-of-wedlock mothers have lower education and earnings than peers who have children later. This study uses the …

-parametric estimator of the effect of parental income on the decision to send children to school. We propose new tests for detecting the …