The ways in which partners manage their money provide important clues to gender inequality and the nature of couple relationships. Analyzing data from nationally representative surveys ( N = 11,730 couples), I examine changes across British cohorts born between 1920s 1990s household financial management, how vary individuals couples occupying differential income positions. results show divergen...

Objective This study examines the effect of exposure to different economic narratives future on fertility intentions Norwegian couples. Background Fertility patterns should not only be interpreted in relation uncertainty conceptualized as objective constraints. One also consider that subjective may have a significant role decision-making. Method Data were collected from controlled laboratory ex...

Abstract Married couples can face a higher or lower tax burden than cohabitating with the same income when former are taxed as one unit. I study effect of such joint taxation on marriage rate in Switzerland, where differentials between married and vary considerably across cantons. For this purpose, construct dataset containing sociodemographic -economic variables every individual living Switzer...

researching on the economic gains of marriage is one of the fields in family economics studies. accordingly, the aim of this paper is to investigate marriage gains as couples' income increases while the main hypothesis is based on cross-productivity effect. the resulted evidence from families of tehran suggests that the cross-productivity effect exists for both of spouses whereas this effe...

This paper examines the risk of poverty among a sample of couples and widows interviewed in the Retirement History Survey over a ten-year period. The longi tudina1 na ture of the da ta allows us to look a t the dynamics of poverty among older married women as they age and become widowed. We arrange the data to simulate a cross-section and then compare this method of calculating poverty rates wi...

Title of Thesis: COMPARISON OF STRUCTURAL INTERACTION PATTERNS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN CLINICAL COUPLES: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES John Rennie Hart, M.S., 2012 Thesis Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Department of Family Science This study focused on degrees to which African American and Caucasian couples who have sought couple therapy at a community clinic...

The central thesis of this article is the treatment of the marital relationship within the context of social exchange theory. This article opens with a discussion of marital solidarity and marital power from a social exchange perspective. Next, the article addresses the differences between social exchange and economic exchange in order to provide insight in delineating marital relationships in ...

This paper demonstrates the important link between the incomes and wealth of pensioners and their working-life earnings levels. It uses the combination of detailed income and asset information and working-life history information available in the British Household Panel Survey. The proportionality predicted by a simple “stripped down” form of the life-cycle model is supported for pensioner coup...

This paper reviews recent developments in the theory of optimal labor income taxation. We emphasize connections between theory and empirical work that were initially lacking from optimal income tax theory. First, we provide historical and international background on labor income taxation and means-tested transfers. Second, we present the simple model of optimal linear taxation. Third, we consid...

The reasons for higher rates of smoking among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people than among heterosexual people are not well known. Research on internal migration and neighborhood selection suggests that LGB people are more likely to live in neighborhoods where the tobacco industry has historically targeted their marketing efforts (lower income, more racial/ethnic diversity). We used multi...