Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples This study investigates how spouses’ cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intrahousehold bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-b...

In most Western countries, there is clear evidence of a reduction and even reversal the gender gap in education. However, are doubts about effect this on family life its impact distribution roles within couples. Using data from Spanish time use survey 2009–10, paper explores whether improved education women translating to better occupations higher incomes it related more egalitarian roles. The ...

Most assessments of the adequacy of retirement resources are expressed as a comparison of preretirement income to immediate post-retirement income. Yet, among couples a substantial fraction of retirement years is eventually spent by the surviving spouse living alone. To the extent that singles need less than couples to maintain the same standard of living, assessments of the adequacy of economi...

Title of thesis: THE ROLE OF PROVIDER-ROLE IDEOLOGY AND CONSISTENCY IN COUPLE COMMUNICATION Jessica Lynn Brenneman, Master of Science, 2010 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science This study investigated how problem solving and conflict in couples’ communication is affected by their beliefs about provider role ideology, and the consistency between th...

Background: HIV/AIDS and domestic violence are two of the major health problems affecting the lives of millions of people worldwide. Many people have fallen victim to these two pandemics especially in subSaharan Africa and much of the developing countries. Aim: In the present paper, we investigate factors associated with domestic violence amongst four couple groups namely: concordant negative, ...

This handbook chapter 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...

To respond to the need for new HIV prevention services for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States, and to respond to new data on the key role of main partnerships in US MSM epidemics, we sought to develop a new service for joint HIV testing of male couples. We used the ADAPT-ITT framework to guide our work. From May 2009 to July 2013, a multiphase process was undertaken to identif...

The current study is the first to investigate the school selection considerations and school-related experiences of sexual-minority parents with young children. The sample consisted of 210 parents in 105 couples, including 35 lesbian couples, 30 gay male couples, and 40 heterosexual couples, all of whom had adopted a child three years earlier. We found that parents with less income were more li...