The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of economic literature regarding theories that analyze the demand for higher education from a microeconomic perspective. Some of the noteworthy fundamental theories included in this review include Becker's (1983) theory of human capital and some...

Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary...

Existing evidence suggests that girls are differentially affected by income shocks and changes in bargaining power. Most studies, however, ignore household production and confound differential opportunity costs with changes in income or bargaining power. I disentangle these determinants of...

The educational attainment of young women now exceeds that of young men in most of the developed world, and women account for about 60% of new four-year college graduates in the United States. Several studies have suggested that the increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the...

Following Mare's (2011) presidential address to the Population Association of America, much research has examined the dynamics of intergenerational mobility and socioeconomic inequality. However, this research is starkly divided on the existence of multigenerational effects and pathways. In this...

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates of participation in STEM studies by girls. Recent economics research has shown the importance of social influences on women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been...

The publication of research examining three-generational mobility processes has accelerated during the past half-decade, due in part to new and expanded data that now include large sample sizes of families with more than two generations. However, this area of inquiry is relatively new and little...

Recent research has documented the relatively poor performance of boys, especially those from single-mother households, on a number of outcomes. Differences in non-cognitive skills are often cited as a main contributing factor. However, we still know little about the underlying mechanisms...

The falling female labor force participation rate in China has raised the attention oflabor economists and policymakers. In light of this, this paper documents the changesin labor force participation of mothers relative to fathers around first births (referred to asthe "child penalty" in the...

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...