Although the common wisdom -- based largely on Vital Statistics available only for period through 1988 -- is that marriage is fast becoming a defunct institution, evidence derived from annual March CPS (1964-95) is used to demonstrate that there have been substantial changes in the long-term...

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States. This paper uses a model of female marital search to demonstrate why these two trends could be related. Elementary job search theory, under risk-neutrality, predicts search...

Demand for employment-based insurance is typically treated as an individual rather than a household decision. Dual-earner households are now the modal U.S. married household, however, and most firms offer family coverage as an option available to employees. Findings from a model estimating...

Teen out-of-wedlock mothers have lower education and earnings than peers who have children later. This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 (NELS) to examine the extent to which the apparent effects of out-of-wedlock teen fertility are due to pre- existing...

Les subventions a la garde d'enfants versees directement aux consommateurs (la demande) ont-elles un effet different des subventions versees aux fournisseurs de garde d'enfants (l'offre)? Les auteurs concluent qu'il ya, ou peut y avoir, des differences d'effets entre les subventions a la...

This article uses a new and detailed survey of cigar-making employers and employees to investigate male and female wage growth in the late nineteenth century. Swedish cigar workers in 1898 did not have careers like workers today do; instead, labor markets were more flexible, and workers were not...

Las adolescentes más pobres son especialmente vulnerables y propensas aempezar su vida sexual y tener hijos en la adolescencia, dadas sus característicasindividuales, el contexto en el que viven y las posibilidades futurasque perciben. Pese a que las estrategias y políticas orientadas a...

There have been major changes to the household and family structure in the Nordic countries during the past 50 years. The number of households has increased much faster than the population, leading to a significant drop in average household size. The reasons are multifaceted including lower...

Home-ownership is the most important asset among the elderly in Europe, but in this domain very little is known about gender differences. This paper aims at exploring the link between gender, living arrangements, monetary poverty and home tenure among older Europeans, in order to identify the...

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as some states abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary...