The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for …

both men and women and household after-tax incomes to increase by approximately $60 per week on average. For families with …

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for …

We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often … disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for … underlying material hardship rather than to gender differences, information asymmetries, or individual (as opposed to household …