Family

 The Economic Significance of Changing Family Structures

BECKER

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Contents:

Agenda
Sources for Presentation
Links
General Reading Assignment
Handouts
Powerpoints

General Reading Assignment for the entire class:

Lundberg, S. and R. Pollack, (2007) “The American Family and Family Economics”, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp 3-26.

 

Agenda

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I. OPENING REMARKS

II. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY

  • “Does a Market Economy Really Need the Family?”
  • “Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?”

III. THE FAMILY AND THE NEXT GENERATION

  • “Is the Family Essential for Accumulating Human Capital?”
  • “Is Divorce Really Bad for Children?”

IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (THEORY AND POLICY)

  • “How Do Families Make Decisions?”
  • “Do Our Economic Policies Promote Out-of Wedlock Births?”

IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

 

Sources for Presentations

II. THE ECONOMIC ROLES OF FAMILIES

“Does a Market Economy Really Need the Family?”

Aguirre, Maria Sophia (2001), “Family, Economics and the Information Society: How Are They Affecting Each Other?”, International Journal of Social Economics v28, n3-4 (2001): 225-247.

Bubolz, Margaret M. (2001), “Family as Source, User, and Builder of Social Capital”, Journal of Socio-Economics v30, n2 (2001): 129-131.

Thomas, A. and I. Sawhill, (2005), “For Love and Money? The Impact of Family Structure on Family Income”, Future of Children, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 57-69.

McLanahan, S., (2009), “Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty”, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 621, pp. 111-131.

Waterman, A. M. C. (2003), “Economics, Love, and Family Values: Nancy Folbre and Jennifer Roback Morse on the Invisible Heart: Review Essay”, Independent Review v7, n3 (Winter 2003): 443-453.

E-Reserves

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“Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?”

Ahituv, A. and R. Lehrman, (20007), “How Do Marital Status, Work Effort and Wage Rates Interact?”, Demography, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp 623-647. (Consider only pp 623-626 and pp 641, 642.)

Antonovics, K. and R. Town, (2004), “Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering Sources of the Marital Wage Premium”, American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp 317-?

Bardasi, E. and M. Taylor, (2008), “Marriage and Wages: A Test of the Specialization Hypothesis”, Economica, Vol;. 75, pp 569-591. (Consider only pp 569-571 and pp 570.)

Chun, Hyunbae; Lee, Injae (2001), “Why Do Married Men Earn More: Productivity or Marriage Selection?”, Economic Inquiry v39, n2 (April 2001): 307-319.

Ginther, D.and M. Zavodny, (2001), “Is the male marriage premium due to selection? The effect of shotgun marriages on the return to marriage”, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 14, pp 313-328. (Consider only pp 313-316 and pp 337.)

Lincoln, A., (2008), “Gender, Productivity and the Marital Wage Premium”, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 70, pp 806-814.

Maasoumi, E. ; D. Millimet and D. Sarkar, (2009), “Who Benefits from Marriage”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, pp 1-31. (Consider only pp 1-5 and pp 29-30.)

 E-Reserves

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III. THE FAMILY AND THE NEXT GENERATION

“Is the Family Essential for Accumulating Human Capital?”

Bjorklund, Anders; Donna Ginther; Marianne Sundstrom, (2007), “Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden”, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 20, pp. 183-201. (Consider only pp 183-187 and 199-200.)

Finlay, K. and D. Neumark, (2010), “Is Marriage Always Good for Children?”, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp1046-1086. (Consider only pp pp 1046-1050 and pp 1084-1085.)

Ginther, Donna K., Robert A. Pollak, (2003), “Does Family Structure Effect Children’s Educational Outcomes?” NBER Working Paper, 9628, April 2003.

Haskins, Ron,(2009), “Moynihan was Right: Now What?”, The Annals of the American Academy, No. 621., pp. 281-314. (Consider only pp 281-288 and p309.)

Henretta, J.; Wolf, D.; Van Voorhis, M. and B. Soldo. , (2012) ” Family structure and the reproduction of inequality: Parents’ contribution to children’s college costs”, Social Science Research, Vol. 41, pp 33-47. (Consider only pp 876-878 and pp 885-886.)

Martin, M. (2012), “Family structure and the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage”, Social Science Research, Vol. 41, pp 33-47. (Consider only pp 33-35 and pp 45-46.)

Park, H., (2007), “Single Parenthood and Children’s Reading Performance in Asia”, Journal of Mariiage and Family, Vol. 69, pp 863-877. (Consider only pp 863-867 and pp. 874-875.)

E-Reserves

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“Is Divorce Really Bad for Children?”

Albertini, M. and J. Dronkers, (2009), “Effects of Divorce on Children’s Educational Attainment in a Mediterranian and Catholic Society”, Eurpean Societies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 137-159. (Considere only pp 137-143 aqnd pp 153-155.)

Antecol, H. and K. Bedard, (2007), “Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promoiscuity, substance abuse, and crime?”, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 20, pp 55-71. (Consider only pp 55-58 and pp 69.)

Evenhouse, Eirik; Reilly, Siobhan (2004), “A Sibling Study of Stepchild Well-Being”, in Journal of Human Resources v39, n1 (Winter 2004): 248-276.

Lang, Kevin; Zagorsky, Jay L. (2001), “Does Growing Up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?”, Journal of Human Resources v36, n2 (Spring 2001): 253-273.

Page, Marianne E.; Stevens, Ann Huff (2004), “The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents”, in Journal of Human Resources v39, n1 (Winter 2004): 80-107

Steele, F.W. Rushton and O. Kravdal, (2009),“Consequences of Family Disruption on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Norway”, Demography, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp 553-574. (Consider only pp 553-555 and pp 568.)

E-Reserves

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IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (THEORY AND POLICY)

“How Do Families Make Decisions?”

Brown, P., (2009), “Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from China”, Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp 26-45.

Chang, Chin-Oh; Chen, Shu-Mei; Somerville, Tsur (2003), “Economic and Social Status in Household Decision-Making: Evidence Relating to Extended Family Mobility”, in Urban Studiesv40, n4 (April 2003): 733-746.

Gray, Jeffrey S., (1998), “Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, And Married Women’s Labor Supply”, The American Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, June 1998, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp. 628-642.

Lundberg, Shelly and Robert A. Pollak, (1996), “Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage”, in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 139-158.

Park, Cheolsung, (2007), “Marriage Market, Parents’ Bargaining Powers and Children’s Nuitrition and Education”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 773-793. (Consider only pp. 773-775 and 791)

Tjotta, S. and K. Vaage, (2008), “Public transfers and marital dissolution”, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 21, pp 419-437. (Consider only pp 419-425 and pp 435.)

E-Reserves

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“Do Our Economic Policies Promote Out-of Wedlock Births?”

Aassve, Arnstein (2003), “The Impact of Economic Resources on Premarital Childbearing and Subsequent Marriage among Young American Women”, Demography v40, n1 (February 2003): 105-126

Baughman, Reagan; Dickert-Conlin, Stacy (2003), “Did Expanding the EITC Promote Motherhood?”, in American Economic Review v93, n2 (May 2003): 247-251.

Garfinkel, Irwin, et al. (2003), “The Roles of Child Support Enforcement and Welfare in Non-marital Childbearing”, Journal of Population Economics v16, n1 (February 2003): 55-70.

Hao, Lingxin; Nan M. Astone; Andrew Cherlin, (2007), “Effects of child support and welfre policies on nonmarital teenage childbearing and motherhood”, Population Policy Research Review, Vol. 26, pp. 235-237. (Consider only pp. 235-239 and 253-254.)

Huang, C. and K. Han, (2012), “Child support enforcement in the United States: Has policy made a difference?”, Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 34, pp 622-627.

Offner, Paul, (2005), “Welfare Reform and Teenage Girls”, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 306-322. (Consider only pp. 306-308 and 320-321.)

Ryan, Suzanne; Jenifer Manlove; Sandra L. Hofferth, (2006), “State-level welfare policies and nonmarital subsequent childbearing”, Population Policy Research Review, Vol. 25, pp. 103-126. (Consider only pp. 104-108 and 119-121.)

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Links

Gary Becker

 

Handouts

II. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY

  • “Does a Market Economy Really Need the Family?”
  • “Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?”

III. THE FAMILY AND THE NEXT GENERATION

  • “Is the Family Essential for Accumulating Human Capital?”
  • “Is Divorce Really Bad for Children?”

IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (THEORY AND POLICY)

  • “How Do Families Make Decisions?”
  • “Do Our Economic Policies Promote Out-of Wedlock Births?”

 

 

  PowerPoints

II. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY

  • “Does a Market Economy Really Need the Family?”
  • “Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?”

III. THE FAMILY AND THE NEXT GENERATION

  • “Is the Family Essential for Accumulating Human Capital?”
  • “Is Divorce Really Bad for Children?”

IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (THEORY AND POLICY)

  • “How Do Families Make Decisions?”
  • “Do Our Economic Policies Promote Out-of Wedlock Births?”

Trends in US Families

Benefits of Mariage