Education and Inequality
“Educational Gender Gaps,” Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
“Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage” (with Ziteng Lei), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2020,178: 424-448. (IZA Discussion Paper 12944, February 2020.)
“Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation,” IZA Discussion Paper 10814, May 2017.
“Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?” (with Anne Ardila Brenøe), forthcoming in European Economic Review (IZA Discussion Paper 10313).
“The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality,” Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442. pdf
Marriage and Family Decisionmaking
“Canadian Contributions to Family Economics” (with Aloysius Siow), Canadian Journal of Economics, December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323. pdf
“Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children” (with Katrine Løken and Julie Riise), Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2017, 52(1): 247-271. pdf
“Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing” (with Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102. pdf
“Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld’s The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015, 53(4): 945-960. pdf
“The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010” (with Robert Pollak), Future of Children, Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.
“Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes,” Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41: 177-212. pdf
“The Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010,” (with Robert Pollak) in Human Capital and History: The American Record, eds. Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272. pdf
“Your Place or Mine? On the Location Decisions of Married Couples” (with Katrine Løken and Kjell Erik Lommerud), Demography, February 2013, 50(1): 285-310. pdf
“Personality and Marital Surplus,” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012: 1:3. pdf
“Psychology and Family Economics,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2011, 12 (Special Issue): 66–81. pdf
“Independence Giving or Autonomy Taking? Childhood Predictors of Decision-Making Patterns Between Young Adolescents and Parents,” (with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang), Journal of Research on Adolescence, December 2009, 19(4): 587-600. pdf
“Decision-making by Children,” (with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang), Review of Economics of the Household, March 2009, 7: 1-30. pdf
“Gender and Household Decisionmaking,” in Frontiers in Gender Economics, ed. Francesca Bettio, Routledge, 2008. pdf
“The American Family and Family Economics” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, 21(2): 3-26. (IZA Discussion Paper 2715)
“Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics,” Labour Economics, August 2005, 591-612. (Presented as the Adam Smith Lecture, European Association of Labour Economists Annual Meeting, 2004) pdf
“Efficiency in Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), Review of Economics of the Household, September 2003, 153-167. pdf
“The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach,” (with Richard Startz and Steve Stillman), Journal of Public Economics, May 2003, 1199-1218. pdf
“Bargaining and Distribution in Families,” (with Robert Pollak), in The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs, ed. Arland Thornton, University of Michigan Press, 2001, 314-338. pdf
“Parenthood and the Earnings of Married Men and Women,” (with Elaina Rose), Labour Economics, November 2000, 689-710.
“Family Bargaining and Retirement Behavior,” in Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics, ed. Henry Aaron, Russell Sage/Brookings, 1999, 253-272. pdf
“Do Husbands and Wives Pool Resources?: Evidence from the UK Child Benefit,” (with Robert Pollak and Terry Wales), Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1997, 463-480. pdf
“Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1996, 139-158. Reprinted in Economics of the Family and Family Policies: A Selection of Papers from the 15th Arne Ryde Symposium, eds. Inga Persson and Christina Jonung, New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.
“Noncooperative Bargaining Models of Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1994, 132-137.
“Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market,” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Political Economy, December 1993, 988-1010. Reprinted in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods, and Policy, eds. Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, IFPRI and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Psychological Traits and Non-Cognitive Skills
“Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital,” forthcoming in Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW. pdf
“Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld’s The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015, 53(4): 945-960. pdf
“Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes,” Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41: 177-212. pdf
“The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality,” Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442. pdf
“Personality and Marital Surplus,” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012: 1:3. pdf
“Psychology and Family Economics,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2011, 12 (Special Issue): 66–81. pdf
Gender
“Educational Gender Gaps,” Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
“Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage” (with Ziteng Lei), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2020,178: 424-448. (IZA Discussion Paper 12944, February 2020.)
"Women in Economics: Stalled Progress" (with Jenna Stearns), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Perspectives. pdf
“Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation,” IZA Discussion Paper 10814, May 2017.
“Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?” (with Anne Ardila Brenøe), forthcoming in European Economic Review (IZA Discussion Paper 10313).
“The Changing Sexual Division of Labour,” in The Shape of the Division of Labour: Nations, Industries and Households, eds. Robert M. Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut, Edward Elgar, 2010, 122-148. pdf
“Gender and Household Decisionmaking,” in Frontiers in Gender Economics, ed. Francesca Bettio, Routledge, 2008. pdf
“Sons, Daughters, Wives, and the Labour Market Outcomes of West German Men,” (with Hyung-jai Choi and Jutta Joesch), Labour Economics, October 2008, 15: 795-811. (IZA Discussion Paper 1761) pdf
“Child Gender and Father Involvement in Fragile Families” (with Sara McLanahan and Elaina Rose), Demography, February 2007, 44(1): 79-92. pdf
“Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3): 340-356. pdf
“Investments in Sons and Daughters: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey,” (with Elaina Rose), in Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors that Promote Success, eds. Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire, Erlbaum, 2004, 163-180. pdf
“Child Gender and the Transition to Marriage,” (with Elaina Rose), Demography, May 2003, 333-349. pdf
“The Effect of Sons and Daughters on Men’s Labor Supply and Wages,” (with Elaina Rose), Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2002, 251-268. pdf
Race and Discrimination
“Information and Racial Exclusion,” (with Richard Startz), Journal of Population Economics, July 2007, 20(3): 621-642. (IZA Discussion Paper 1389) pdf
“Inequality and Race: Models and Policy,” (with Richard Startz), in Meritocracy and Inequality, eds. Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles and Steven Durlauf, Princeton University Press, 2000, 269-295. pdf
“On the Persistence of Racial Inequality,” (with Richard Startz), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1998, 292-323. pdf
“The Enforcement of Equal Opportunity Laws Under Imperfect Information: Affirmative Action
and Alternatives,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1991, 309-326. Reprinted in The Economics of Affirmative Action, eds. Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K.: 2004.
“Equality and Efficiency: Anti-Discrimination Policies in the Labor Market,” Contemporary Policy Issues, January 1989, 75-94.
“Private Discrimination and Social Intervention in Competitive Labor Market,” (with Richard Startz), American Economic Review, June l983, 340-347.
Adolescent Fertility
“How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?” (with Daniel Klepinger and Robert Plotnick), Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1999, 421-448. pdf
“Adolescent Premarital Childbearing: Do Economic Incentives Matter?” (with Robert Plotnick), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1995, 177-200.
“Adolescent Fertility and the Educational Attainment of Young Adult Women,” (with Daniel Klepinger and Robert Plotnick), Family Planning Perspectives., January/February 1995, 23-28.
“State Policy on Welfare, Abortion, and Family Planning and Premarital Childbearing Among White Adolescents,” (joint with Robert Plotnick), Family Planning Perspectives, November 1990, 246-251.
Labor Supply and Unemployment
“Hours Restrictions and Labor Supply,” (with William Dickens), International Economic Review, February 1993, 169-192.
“Labor Supply of Husbands and Wives: A Simultaneous Equations Approach,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1988, 224-235.
“Tied Wage-Hours Offers and the Endogeneity of Wages,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, August l985, 405-4l0.
“How Long is a Spell of Unemployment? Illusions and Biases in the Use of CPS Data,”(with Nicholas Kiefer and George Neumann), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, April l985, 118-128.
“The Added Worker Effect,” Journal of Labor Economics, January l985, 11-37.
“Household Labour Supply with Quantity Constraints,” in G. Neumann and N. Westergaard-Nielsen, eds., Studies in Labor Market Dynamics, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, l984, 219-237.
“Educational Gender Gaps,” Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
“Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage” (with Ziteng Lei), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2020,178: 424-448. (IZA Discussion Paper 12944, February 2020.)
“Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation,” IZA Discussion Paper 10814, May 2017.
“Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?” (with Anne Ardila Brenøe), forthcoming in European Economic Review (IZA Discussion Paper 10313).
“The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality,” Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442. pdf
Marriage and Family Decisionmaking
“Canadian Contributions to Family Economics” (with Aloysius Siow), Canadian Journal of Economics, December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323. pdf
“Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children” (with Katrine Løken and Julie Riise), Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2017, 52(1): 247-271. pdf
“Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing” (with Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102. pdf
“Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld’s The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015, 53(4): 945-960. pdf
“The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010” (with Robert Pollak), Future of Children, Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.
“Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes,” Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41: 177-212. pdf
“The Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010,” (with Robert Pollak) in Human Capital and History: The American Record, eds. Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272. pdf
“Your Place or Mine? On the Location Decisions of Married Couples” (with Katrine Løken and Kjell Erik Lommerud), Demography, February 2013, 50(1): 285-310. pdf
“Personality and Marital Surplus,” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012: 1:3. pdf
“Psychology and Family Economics,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2011, 12 (Special Issue): 66–81. pdf
“Independence Giving or Autonomy Taking? Childhood Predictors of Decision-Making Patterns Between Young Adolescents and Parents,” (with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang), Journal of Research on Adolescence, December 2009, 19(4): 587-600. pdf
“Decision-making by Children,” (with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang), Review of Economics of the Household, March 2009, 7: 1-30. pdf
“Gender and Household Decisionmaking,” in Frontiers in Gender Economics, ed. Francesca Bettio, Routledge, 2008. pdf
“The American Family and Family Economics” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, 21(2): 3-26. (IZA Discussion Paper 2715)
“Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics,” Labour Economics, August 2005, 591-612. (Presented as the Adam Smith Lecture, European Association of Labour Economists Annual Meeting, 2004) pdf
“Efficiency in Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), Review of Economics of the Household, September 2003, 153-167. pdf
“The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach,” (with Richard Startz and Steve Stillman), Journal of Public Economics, May 2003, 1199-1218. pdf
“Bargaining and Distribution in Families,” (with Robert Pollak), in The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs, ed. Arland Thornton, University of Michigan Press, 2001, 314-338. pdf
“Parenthood and the Earnings of Married Men and Women,” (with Elaina Rose), Labour Economics, November 2000, 689-710.
“Family Bargaining and Retirement Behavior,” in Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics, ed. Henry Aaron, Russell Sage/Brookings, 1999, 253-272. pdf
“Do Husbands and Wives Pool Resources?: Evidence from the UK Child Benefit,” (with Robert Pollak and Terry Wales), Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1997, 463-480. pdf
“Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1996, 139-158. Reprinted in Economics of the Family and Family Policies: A Selection of Papers from the 15th Arne Ryde Symposium, eds. Inga Persson and Christina Jonung, New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.
“Noncooperative Bargaining Models of Marriage,” (with Robert Pollak), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1994, 132-137.
“Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market,” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Political Economy, December 1993, 988-1010. Reprinted in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods, and Policy, eds. Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, IFPRI and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Psychological Traits and Non-Cognitive Skills
“Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital,” forthcoming in Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW. pdf
“Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld’s The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015, 53(4): 945-960. pdf
“Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes,” Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41: 177-212. pdf
“The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality,” Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442. pdf
“Personality and Marital Surplus,” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012: 1:3. pdf
“Psychology and Family Economics,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2011, 12 (Special Issue): 66–81. pdf
Gender
“Educational Gender Gaps,” Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
“Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage” (with Ziteng Lei), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2020,178: 424-448. (IZA Discussion Paper 12944, February 2020.)
"Women in Economics: Stalled Progress" (with Jenna Stearns), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Perspectives. pdf
“Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation,” IZA Discussion Paper 10814, May 2017.
“Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?” (with Anne Ardila Brenøe), forthcoming in European Economic Review (IZA Discussion Paper 10313).
“The Changing Sexual Division of Labour,” in The Shape of the Division of Labour: Nations, Industries and Households, eds. Robert M. Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut, Edward Elgar, 2010, 122-148. pdf
“Gender and Household Decisionmaking,” in Frontiers in Gender Economics, ed. Francesca Bettio, Routledge, 2008. pdf
“Sons, Daughters, Wives, and the Labour Market Outcomes of West German Men,” (with Hyung-jai Choi and Jutta Joesch), Labour Economics, October 2008, 15: 795-811. (IZA Discussion Paper 1761) pdf
“Child Gender and Father Involvement in Fragile Families” (with Sara McLanahan and Elaina Rose), Demography, February 2007, 44(1): 79-92. pdf
“Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3): 340-356. pdf
“Investments in Sons and Daughters: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey,” (with Elaina Rose), in Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors that Promote Success, eds. Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire, Erlbaum, 2004, 163-180. pdf
“Child Gender and the Transition to Marriage,” (with Elaina Rose), Demography, May 2003, 333-349. pdf
“The Effect of Sons and Daughters on Men’s Labor Supply and Wages,” (with Elaina Rose), Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2002, 251-268. pdf
Race and Discrimination
“Information and Racial Exclusion,” (with Richard Startz), Journal of Population Economics, July 2007, 20(3): 621-642. (IZA Discussion Paper 1389) pdf
“Inequality and Race: Models and Policy,” (with Richard Startz), in Meritocracy and Inequality, eds. Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles and Steven Durlauf, Princeton University Press, 2000, 269-295. pdf
“On the Persistence of Racial Inequality,” (with Richard Startz), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1998, 292-323. pdf
“The Enforcement of Equal Opportunity Laws Under Imperfect Information: Affirmative Action
and Alternatives,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1991, 309-326. Reprinted in The Economics of Affirmative Action, eds. Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K.: 2004.
“Equality and Efficiency: Anti-Discrimination Policies in the Labor Market,” Contemporary Policy Issues, January 1989, 75-94.
“Private Discrimination and Social Intervention in Competitive Labor Market,” (with Richard Startz), American Economic Review, June l983, 340-347.
Adolescent Fertility
“How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?” (with Daniel Klepinger and Robert Plotnick), Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1999, 421-448. pdf
“Adolescent Premarital Childbearing: Do Economic Incentives Matter?” (with Robert Plotnick), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1995, 177-200.
“Adolescent Fertility and the Educational Attainment of Young Adult Women,” (with Daniel Klepinger and Robert Plotnick), Family Planning Perspectives., January/February 1995, 23-28.
“State Policy on Welfare, Abortion, and Family Planning and Premarital Childbearing Among White Adolescents,” (joint with Robert Plotnick), Family Planning Perspectives, November 1990, 246-251.
Labor Supply and Unemployment
“Hours Restrictions and Labor Supply,” (with William Dickens), International Economic Review, February 1993, 169-192.
“Labor Supply of Husbands and Wives: A Simultaneous Equations Approach,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1988, 224-235.
“Tied Wage-Hours Offers and the Endogeneity of Wages,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, August l985, 405-4l0.
“How Long is a Spell of Unemployment? Illusions and Biases in the Use of CPS Data,”(with Nicholas Kiefer and George Neumann), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, April l985, 118-128.
“The Added Worker Effect,” Journal of Labor Economics, January l985, 11-37.
“Household Labour Supply with Quantity Constraints,” in G. Neumann and N. Westergaard-Nielsen, eds., Studies in Labor Market Dynamics, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, l984, 219-237.