Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A.; Stearns, Jenna

doi:10.3386/w22078

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“…If higher marriage rates were associated with worse matching between partners, this might have increased divorce rates and family instability, in turn lowering children's well-being (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2007;Lundberg et al, 2016). Second, it would be interesting to compare our results with those obtained from studies conducted in other contexts, when a different set of channels might be at play.…”

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Happily Ever after: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility

Carlana¹,

Tabellini²

2018

SSRN Journal

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In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants' location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental house for young native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable men". We also explore alternative mechanisms -changes in sex ratios, natives' cultural responses, and displacement effects of immigrants on female employment -and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. JEL: J12, J13, J61, N32 .

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Happily Ever after: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility

Carlana¹,

Tabellini²

2018

SSRN Journal

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“…Dettling and Hsu, 2014;Lundberg, Pollak and Stearns, 2016) and represent a sizeable portion of these households. others, however, fall into relatively high income households ( Figure 2).…”

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Household Incomes in Tax Data: Using Addresses to Move from Tax Unit to Household Income Distributions

Larrimore

Mortenson²,

Splinter³

2017

FEDS

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Tax return data are increasingly the standard for tracking income statistics in the United States. However, these data have traditionally been limited by their inability to capture non-filers and to identify members of separate tax units living in the same household. We overcome these obstacles and create household records directly in the tax data using mailing address information included on tax forms. We then present the first set of tax-based household income and inequality measures for the entire income distribution. When comparing household income inequality results in the tax data to those using the March CPS, we confirm previous findings that the March CPS understates the inequality of household income. However, we also find that the previous approach of using tax units in the IRS data to proxy for households leads to an overstatement of household income inequality. Finally, using households in the IRS tax records, we illustrate how focusing on tax units rather than households alters the observed distribution of tax programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.JEL Codes: D31, H24

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“…There is also an extensive literature on interactions within the family unit (for an early reference, see Manser and Brown (1980)). The bargaining process among the couple, molded by institutional arrangements, has been shown to have an impact on both labor force participation decisions and fertility decisions (see Cigno (2012) for a recent theoretical analysis, and Lundberg et al (2016) for an review of family structures and their consequences). Without disregarding the validity of these frameworks, an analysis of the influence of such mechanisms is beyond the scope of this work.…”

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A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility

Arolas

2017

J Popul Econ

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This work offers an explanation for the apparent contradiction between empirical work that finds a negative relationship between unemployment and fertility, and theoretical work that emphasizes the lower opportunity cost of childbearing while unemployed. I reconcile these perspectives by distinguishing between two forms of unemployment. The first form is structural unemployment, while the second form is cyclical unemployment, a less permanent component of unemployment that is linked to the economic cycle. I apply a cohort-based model to study both effects over the life cycle using panel data methods applied to a sample of developed countries. My results show that higher levels of structural unemployment decrease fertility, but that the effects of cyclical variations in unemployment depend to a large extent on the age at which they are experienced. Cyclical reductions in the unemployment level mostly result in increases in fertility rates. However, for some age groups, positive variations in the cyclical component of unemployment can also have a positive impact on fertility.

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Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

Happily Ever after: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility

Happily Ever after: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility

Household Incomes in Tax Data: Using Addresses to Move from Tax Unit to Household Income Distributions

A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility

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