Review of Economics of the Household

2003 - 2009

Edited by Shoshana Grossbard

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Volume 7, issue 3, 2009

Health and the household pp. 219-226

Richard Anderson and Michael Grossman

The connection between maternal employment and childhood obesity: inspecting the mechanisms pp. 227-255

Angela Fertig, Gerhard Glomm and Rusty Tchernis

Physical inactivity and working hour inflexibility: evidence from a U.S. sample of older men pp. 257-281

Chung-Ping Loh

Who cares and how much: exploring the determinants of co-residential informal care pp. 283-303

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Paul McNamee and Mandy Ryan

Who cares and how much: exploring the determinants of co-residential informal care pp. 305-305

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Paul McNamee and Mandy Ryan

How do health shocks influence retirement decisions? pp. 307-321

Kerry Anne McGeary

Long-term care of the disabled elderly: do children increase caregiving by spouses? pp. 323-339

Liliana Pezzin, Robert Pollak and Barbara Schone

Volume 7, issue 2, 2009

Poverty and its persistence: a comparison of natives and immigrants in Sweden pp. 105-132

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

The potential of a couples approach to employment assistance: results of a nonexperimental evaluation pp. 133-158

Rachel Gordon and Carolyn Heinrich

Home production and wages: evidence from the American Time Use Survey pp. 159-178

Joni Hersch

Gender wage differences and human capital in the early twentieth century: the case of the paper box industry in New York pp. 179-188

Donald F. Vitaliano

Estimating the impacts of household behavior on youth smoking: evidence from Ontario, Canada pp. 189-218

Anindya Sen

Volume 7, issue 1, 2009

Decision-making by children pp. 1-30

Shelly Lundberg, Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang

The distribution of financial well-being and income within the household pp. 31-42

Jens Bonke and Martin Browning

Marriage market imbalances and labor force participation of Canadian women pp. 43-57

John C Herbert Emery and Ana Ferrer

The impact of biological preferences on parental investments in children and step-children pp. 59-81

Naoko Akashi-Ronquest

Sexual orientation and self-reported lying pp. 83-104

Nathan Berg and Donald Lien

Volume 6, issue 4, 2008

The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households pp. 311-325

Shoshana Grossbard and Lisa K. Jepsen

Registered domestic partnerships among gay men and lesbians: the role of economic factors pp. 327-346

M. Lee Badgett, Gary Gates and Natalya Maisel

Assessing the geographic distribution of same sex and opposite sex couples across the United States: implications for claims of causality between traditional marriage and same sex unions pp. 347-367

John Graham and Jason Barr

Is there a ‘marriage premium’ for gay men? pp. 369-389

Madeline Zavodny

Sexual orientation, income, and non-pecuniary economic outcomes: new evidence from young lesbians in Australia pp. 391-408

Christopher Carpenter

Marriage, partnership and sexual orientation: a study of British university academics and administrators pp. 409-422

Alison Lee Booth and Jeff Frank

The effects of sexual orientation and marital status on how couples hold their money pp. 423-446

Marieka Klawitter

Volume 6, issue 3, 2008

A demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the United States pp. 193-221

David Blau and Wilbert Klaauw

The response of household parental investment to child endowments pp. 223-242

David Loughran, Ashlesha Datar and M. Kilburn

The quality of time spent with children in Australian households pp. 243-266

Charlene Marie Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster

On the underestimation of migration’s income and poverty impact pp. 267-284

Maurice Schiff

Effect of agricultural policy on succession decisions of farm households pp. 285-307

Ashok Mishra and Hisham El-Osta

Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women’s labor force participation pp. 309-309

Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Volume 6, issue 2, 2008

Gender preference, biased sex ratio, and parental investments in single-child households pp. 91-110

Michael Leung and Junsen Zhang

Do women value marriage more? The effect of obesity on cohabitation and marriage in the USA pp. 111-126

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

Women’s family-related career breaks: a long-term British perspective pp. 127-167

Miguel A. Malo and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

A public good version of the collective household model: an empirical approach with an application to British household data pp. 169-191

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Volume 6, issue 1, 2008

Does housework matter anymore? The shifting impact of housework on economic inequality pp. 1-28

Cathleen Zick, W. Bryant and Sivithee Srisukhumbowornchai

The quality–quantity trade-off in fertility across parent earnings levels: a test for credit market failure pp. 29-45

Nathan D. Grawe

A household production model of demand for childcare and meals: theory and evidence from the Philippines pp. 47-64

Yoo-Mi Chin

PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: The impact of Nordic countries’ family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children pp. 65-89

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith and Mette Verner

Volume 5, issue 4, 2007

The market for foster care: an empirical study of the impact of foster care subsidies pp. 329-351

Joseph Doyle and Elizabeth Peters

The effect of family structure on parents’ child care time in the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 353-384

Charlene Marie Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Sundt Stratton

On the sharing of temporary parental leave: the case of Sweden pp. 385-404

Anna Amilon

Volume 5, issue 3, 2007

What is child care? Lessons from time-use surveys of major English-speaking countries pp. 223-248

Nancy Folbre and Jayoung Yoon

Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women’s labor force participation pp. 249-278

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Shoshana Grossbard

The working spouse penalty/premium and married women’s labor supply pp. 279-304

Younghwan Song

Parental religiosity and daughters’ fertility: the case of Catholics in southern Europe pp. 305-327

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

Volume 5, issue 2, 2007

Why do families actually pool their income? Evidence from Denmark pp. 113-128

Jens Bonke and Hans Uldall-Poulsen

Computer usage, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants pp. 129-157

Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller

Labor market participation in France: an asymptotic least squares analysis of couples’ decisions pp. 159-179

Emmanuel Duguet and Véronique Simonnet

Did the legalization of abortion increase women’s household bargaining power? Evidence from labor supply pp. 181-207

Sonia Oreffice

Gambling participation in Australia: findings from the national Household Expenditure Survey pp. 209-221

Andrew Worthington, Kerry Brown, Mary Crawford and David Pickernell

Volume 5, issue 1, 2007

On the expansion of the market and the decline of the family pp. 1-13

Joel Guttman and Nira Yacouel

Parents’ income and children’s school drop-out at 16 in England and Wales: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study pp. 15-40

Massimiliano Bratti

Intrahousehold allocation of financial resources: evidence from South Korean individual bank accounts pp. 41-58

Jungmin Lee and Mark Pocock

Disagreement in Australian partners’ reports of financial difficulty pp. 59-82

Robert Vincent Breunig, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Xiaodong Gong and Danielle Venn

Does work during childhood affect the health of Guatemalan adults? pp. 83-94

Furio Camillo Rosati and Roland Straub

Medicaid physician fees and the quality of medical care of Medicaid patients in the USA pp. 95-112

Sandra Decker