High on the research agenda of feminist economists is the development of better models of what goes on within families. This paper contributes by conducting empirical tests of the impact of social/institutional factors on behavior within marriage. As one example, “divorce-threat” bargaining...

We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to ask whether (a) parenting a child with a disability or chronic condition leads to lower maternal health status; (b) the association is larger over the longer term; and (c) health consequences are larger for lone than married...

Motivated by popular discussions of the "double work day" for women in dualearner households, this paper examines gender differences among such couples in satisfaction with time for self, drawing on microdata from the 1990 Statistics Canada General Social Survey. While most earlier studies of...

We use data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to address two questions. To what extent do parents and children agree when asked identical questions about child well-being? To what extent do differences in their responses affect what one infers from multivariate...

Nous avons exploite les donnees de l'Enquete longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes pour repondre a deux questions : dans quelle mesure les parents et les enfants sont-ils d'accord dans leurs reponses a des questions identiques sur le bien-etre de l'enfance? dans quelle mesure les...

Le present document de recherche examine si diverses mesures du revenu familial sont associees au developpement cognitif, socio-affectif, physique et comportemental des enfants. Les donnees de l'Enquete longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes ont servi a evaluer une gamme de...

This research paper examines whether various measures of family income are associated with the cognitive, social/emotional, physical and behavioural development of children. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used to assess a range of measures of well-being...

A statistical association between poor child health and low family income has been well established by Lipman, Offord and Boyle (1994, 1995) and Dooley and Lipman (1995) in a series of papers using data from the Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). The incidence of psychiatric disorders and poor...