The children who grew up in two-parent households for their entire childhood earn more than the other children reared in non-intact parental families. The causal effect of growing up in a two- parent household on the child's adult earnings is the hourly earnings difference between the children...

The desirability, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of government welfare policies depend crucially on the income risk that households face and the actions that they can take to reduce consumption fluctuations, for instance by adjusting their saving and labor supply. Shocks to labour earnings are...

Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...