The impact of household composition on income inequality
30 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in labour economics, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, labour demographics, marriage and divorce, Population demographics, single mothers, single parents
US Illegitimacy Rates
27 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
CHART of the DAY: US Illegitimacy Rates http://t.co/TcbPo1Yhf9—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 12, 2015
The decline of the traditional British family
26 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage Tags: British economy, British history, British politics, economics of fertility, economics of the family, family demographics, marriage and divorce, single families, single mothers
https://twitter.com/ONS/status/624500831023407104/photo/1
Almost half of all babies (47.5%) are now born outside marriage/civil partnership ow.ly/PDqCi http://t.co/aVqG1GAqMA—
(@ONS) July 15, 2015
The Moynihan Report revisited
22 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of families, marriage and divorce, Moynihan report, single mothers, single parents
Why did married couples get a pass on the great wage stagnation and the ravages of the top 1%?
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, economics of fertility, female labour force participation, male labour force participation, marriage and divorce, maternal labour force participation, single mothers, single parents
Marriage used to be a pairing of opposites: Men would work for pay and women would work at home. But in the second half of the 20th century, women flooded the labour force, raising their participation rate from 32 percent, in 1950, to nearly 60 percent in the last decade. As women closed the education gap, the very nature of marriage has changed. It has slowly become an arrangement pairing similarly rich and educated people. Ambitious workaholics used to seek partners who were happy to take care of the house. Today, they’re more likely to seek another ambitious workaholic.
The rich and educated are more likely to marry, to marry each other, and to produce rich and educated children. But this virtual cycle turns vicious for the poor.
Source: How America’s Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality So Much Worse – The Atlantic
Single motherhood and the feminisation of poverty
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, child poverty, economics and fertility, engines of liberation, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage premium, single mothers, single parents
43.1% of single mothers are living in poverty this #MothersDay statusofwomendata.org http://t.co/OgWcmvLnDZ—
IWPR (@IWPResearch) May 10, 2015
The trouble with boys
31 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: economics of the family, lost boys, reversing gender gap, single mothers, single parents
The Trouble w Boys: U Chicago study: boys fr non-intact homes esp likely to struggle in school nber.org/papers/w17541 http://t.co/31xyA4BVQH—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 18, 2015
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, economics of the family, racial discrimination, single mothers, single parents, teen pregnancies
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family? Not exactly. bit.ly/1f8jgXm http://t.co/1q2nKJnU9W—
City Journal (@CityJournal) August 13, 2015
US Teen Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics, welfare reform Tags: abortion, economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, single mothers, single parents, teen pregnancy
US Teen Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates since 1972 http://t.co/mwR1U6WJg8—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) August 06, 2015
Creative destruction in household types
25 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics Tags: creative destruction, household production, marital division of labour, Population demographics, single mothers, single parents
Number and Type of Households since 1940
More income graphics: bit.ly/11be39y http://t.co/noyPIlRRCa—
Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) July 11, 2013
US Illegitimacy Rates
24 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics Tags: child poverty, economics of the family, family poverty, single mothers, single parents
CHART of the DAY: US Illegitimacy Rates http://t.co/TcbPo1Yhf9—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 12, 2015
Poverty rates by age of youngest child – USA, UK, Canada and Australia
11 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, child poverty, family poverty, marriage and divorce, single mothers, single parents
Figure 1: poverty rates by age of youngest child, 2004
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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