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The Economics of Changing Family Structures: The Public Interest in ...

Marital and family formation trends since the 1860s are described, along with the impact of unilateral divorce, no-fault divorce, and child support laws on ...

Economic Poverty: Does the Break-Up of Families Matter? - MDPI

In this paper we investigate the relationship between family structure and poverty for European countries using Eurostat and OECD data.

Family Economics - Cemmap

... family budgets, Le Play (1872) argued that the insurance role of the family, is better served by the British system of inheritance that allows a flexible ...

The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure ...

We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions, America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash ...

The “College Gap” in Marriage and Children's Family Structure | NBER

Second, the decline in the share of children living in married parent families primarily reflects an increase in non-marital childbearing, not a ...

Family Structure and the Economic Wellbeing of Children - Issue Lab

An extensive literature that examines the relationship between family structure and children's outcomes consistently shows that living with ...

Economics of the Family | Abi Adams

Economics of the Family · Key Dates · Week 1 (20 Jan): Introduction & Overview of Changes in the Family & Women's Economic Status · Week 2 (27 Jan): Models of the ...

Family structure shapes economic outcomes | Opinion - JDNews.com

In a 2017 study, scholars from the Urban Institute, Cornell University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia found that, all ...

Family structure, economic status, and educational attainment

Empirical findings indicate that living with a widowed, divorced, or separated mother has little or no effect on educational attainment once we control for ...

Family structure, private transfers, and the economic well-being of ...

Examined the relationship between family structure, private transfers, and the economic well-being of families with children under age 18 yrs.

Children and Family Structure (Chapter 11) - Economics of the Family

There is a growing concern that the higher turnover in the marriage market causes more children to live with single mothers or stepparents. In the United States ...

The American Family and Family Economics

5) to explain the basic empirical patterns of family life.1 Accord- ing to Becker (p. 135), “[T]he main purpose of marriage and families is the production ...

Putting the family in economics - University Affairs

The growing field of family economics applies the basic economic concepts to the family unit, allowing researchers to explore some fundamental policy issues.

The Economics of the Family

(1997): "Parental altruism and inter vivos transfers: Theory and evidence";. [Economic theory, Families & family life, Children & youth, Studies, Income ...

Family structure and income inequality in families with children ...

In general, the estimated role of family structure change is inversely related to the magnitude of the changes in inequality. Furthermore, by ...

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity

Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and ...

Is Inequality All in the Family? - U.S. News & World Report

But it's also true that family structure exacerbates existing inequities. Two-parent households have the potential for a second earner, making ...

Family Structure, Private Transfers, and the Economic Well-Being of ...

We examine family structure beyond marital status to include remarriage, cohabitation, and the gender of single parenthood. We focus on financial transfers from ...

Economy of the Family - FAFCE

Family members conduct their family activities free of charge, producing many positive externalities to their members and to society as a whole. Therefore, a ...

Family Characteristics and Economic Development 26.11.2014

We build a first dummy series with value one when the family structure of a given country is characterized by the presence of strong parental authority over ...