, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment. It also identifies gaps in our knowledge, and suggests agenda items …

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive ability measure (AFQT), family background variables and unobserved … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …