This article compares several characteristics of the black and white population aged 60 and older in March 1972. To distinguish race from economic-status effects the population is divided into quintiles of elderly units ranked by size of money income, and comparisons of selected demographic and economic characteristics are made within and across quintiles. Differences between social security be...

The study analyses a range of approaches to measuring housing affordability in the Australian private rental market. In particular, it compares traditional consumption-based measures of housing affordability with a new measure of housing affordability based on the Canadian core housing need model, which includes the suitability of the dwelling for the household’s needs as well as its cost. The ...

BACKGROUND The overall prevalence of infertility was estimated to be 3.5-16.7% in developing countries and 6.9-9.3% in developed countries. Furthermore, according to reports from some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence rate is 30-40%. The consequences of infertility and how it affects the lives of women in poor-resource settings, particularly in developing countries, has become an im...

How match-making methods a¤ect marriage outcomes is an understudied topic. Using a survey of Chinese couples in 1991, this paper examines whether parental involvement in match-making a¤ects a couple’s marriage harmony and joint income. We …nd that, compared with those married through self search, couples relying on parental help in match-making have on average less harmony and less income in ru...

We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated with the husband's income. The empirical evidence is consistent with children being "normal." In an ef...

A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of income and welfare may change. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the welfare effects for married couples of replacing the Italian 1993 income tax-transfer system by three alternative hypothetical reforms; a flat tax, a negative tax, and a workfare...

Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as well as in job opportun...

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules according to various social welfare criteria, keeping fixed the total net tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumptionleisure preferences for singles and couples as well as in job opportunities across individuals based on deta...

Unequal divisions of paid work and care among new parents contribute to increasing inequalities. One explanation for this is joint utility maximization the benefits partners (temporarily) specializing in care. This paper examines (dis)advantages compared dividing tasks more equally by studying whether differences specialization between same-sex different-sex couples lead household earnings afte...