This article investigates the dependence structure of income distribution in the US by providing two approaches -- one regression-based and the other copula-based -- to reveal new information about income dependence. The system of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) is estimated for both...

This paper uses nationally representative data from two large household surveys to investigate the extent to which child asthma affects maternal labor supply. The theoretical and empirical models take into account the fact that asthma prevalence is partially influenced by genetic and...