financial aid to low-income households with children. In this study we assess the Family Security Act-a proposal presented by … stated objectives of increasing marriage rates and cutting child poverty at no cost to the government. The assessment is … carried out through a structural microsimulation approach, using a dynamic model of savings, labor supply, household formation …

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …

Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family … small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most …