Time with kids is a normal good rather than means to improve child quality? @tylercowen @bryan_caplan @MargRev http://t.co/8ICuUFdv2A—
Ian (@ianmichaelbrown) March 29, 2015
The demand and supply of quality family time
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply Tags: child rearing, economics of family, family demographics, household division of labour
Height differences of couples
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics Tags: marriage and divorce, search and matching
Height differences of couples. #dating #dataviz
Source: fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-co… http://t.co/gXsS16uER6—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) December 05, 2014
Changes in Life Satisfaction before and after Marriage and Divorce
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Poverty and family structure in America
28 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, single parents
The Economic Determinants of Marriage | Demos
21 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics Tags: engines of liberation, single parenthood, single parents
Men near the bottom of the ladder have seen their earnings and economic status collapse. This has made them less attractive mates, both because of the earnings collapse itself and some of its likely secondary effects. Diminished capacity to support others, especially relative to a normal standard of living, might also cause them to find relationships less attractive or even humiliating.
Women across the board have seen their economic prospects improve. This has made them more capable of escaping or avoiding miserable and abusive relationships, which are much more common on the bottom.
How better educated whites are driving political polarization – The Washington Post
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: abortion, political polarisation
On or about 1990, as a latter-day Virginia Woolf might say, American politics changed. I wouldn’t take the blip of the dotted line at 1990 very seriously–sampling variability and all that–but the general pattern in the graph above is real, and appear in all sorts of other data. In 1988 and before: zero correlations of partisanship with attitudes; since 1992, the correlations have been big and getting larger…
Not only is the abortion/party relationship primarily driven by whites, it is substantially stronger among white elites–that is, people with high income, education, or levels of political information.
via How better educated whites are driving political polarization – The Washington Post.
Single parenthood in the USA by ethnicity
18 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of fertility, single parenthood, single parents
An International Look at the Single-Parent Family–where is New Zealand?
16 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, family demographics, labour demographics, single parents
Educational disadvantage and single parenthood
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: family demographics, single parents
Are Moms Less Likely Than Dads To Pay Child Support? | FiveThirtyEight
10 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, poverty and inequality
In 2011, 32 percent of custodial fathers didn’t receive any of the child support that had been awarded to them, compared with 25.1 percent of custodial mothers. That’s a relatively small difference. And when you look at the other extreme (i.e., the percentage of parents who receive the full amount), the difference isn’t statistically significant at all: 43.6 percent of custodial mothers compared with 41.4 percent of fathers.
Then there’s the gray area in between paying nothing and paying everything. The most common amount of child support due to custodial mothers is $4,800 annually, of which $2,500 is typically received (52 percent). For custodial fathers, median annual child support is less — it’s $4,160 — and fathers receive 40 percent of the amount they’re due.
via Are Moms Less Likely Than Dads To Pay Child Support? | FiveThirtyEight.
The changing face of marriage in America
03 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: same-sex marriage
Richard Posner on libertarian scepticism about law as an engine of women’s liberation
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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