The analysis in this paper provides estimates of family welfare losses generated by wage and nonlabor income declines … roughly $190 billion, comparing family welfare between 2007 and 2011. …

This paper calculates the cost of an unemployment shock in terms of family welfare for married and single families … loss of $1,156 when the unemployment rate rises by 1 percentage point. The average welfare loss for married families is … versus a shock to unemployment rises with income. …

wage gap from 1983 to 1993 was materially detrimental to the average dual-earner family. The female/male wage ratio … principal household income generator. This paper investigates how these two developments affected family welfare. Although … family welfare rose during the 1990s, the story of the 2000s is quite different. …

This paper calculates the cost of an unemployment shock in terms of family welfare. We find that, overall, families … face an average annualized expected dollar equivalent welfare loss of $1,156 when the unemployment rate rises by 1 … one-percentage-point rise in the unemployment rate …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

This paper calculates the change in optimal labor supply and total family welfare resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs … to 2017, using a joint family utility model. These elasticities are then used to simulate changes in optimal labor supply … optimal hours are lower post-TCJA, relative to before. However, there are differences across family members and family types …