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General Reading Assignment for the entire class:
( To view the sources for a paper, click on the title.)
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
II. THE ECONOMIC ROLES OF FAMILIES
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. (Paper Reserves)
Bubolz, Margaret M. (2001), "Family as Source, User, and Builder of Social Capital", Journal of Socio-Economics v30, n2 (2001): 129-131. (Electronic Reserves)
Folbre, Nancy (1997), "The Future of the Elephant-Bird", Population and Development Review v23, n3 (September 1997): 647-654. (Electronic Reserves)
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. (Electronic Reserves)
Blackburn, McKinley and Sanders Korenman, (1994), "The Declining Marital-Status Earnings Differential" , Population Economics, Vol 7, pp. 247-270. (Paper Reserves)
Chun, Hyunbae; Lee, Injae (2001), "Why Do Married Men Earn More: Productivity or Marriage Selection?", Economic Inquiry v39, n2 (April 2001): 307-319. (Electronic Reserves in Family/Marriage)
Cornwell, Christopher and Peter Rupert; (1997), "Unobservable Individual Effects, Marriage and the Earnings of Young Men", Economic Inquiry, Vol. 35, April 1997, pp. 285-294. (Electronic Reserves)
Gray, Jeffrey S.; (1997) "The Fall in Men's Return to Marriage: Declining Productivity Effects or Changing Selection?", The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1997, pp. 481-504 (Electronic Reserves in Family/Marriage)
Jacobsen, Joyce P. and Wendy L. Rayack. (1996) "Do Men Whose Wives Work Really Earn Less?", American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 268-273. (Electronic Reserves in Family/Marriage)
Korenman, Sanders and David Neumark, (1991) "Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?", in Journal of Human Resources, vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 282-307.(Paper Reserves)
Loh, Eng Seng (1996), "Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males" in the Journal of Economic Resources, Summer 1996, vol. 31, no. 3, pp 566 590. (Electronic Reserves in Family/Marriage)
Schoeni, Robert F., (1995), "Marital Status and Earnings in Developed
Countries", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 8, 1995, pp.
351-359. (Paper Reserves)
III. THE FAMILY AND THE NEXT GENERATION
Biblarz, Timothy J. and Adrian E. Raferty, (1999) "Family Structure, Educational Attainment, and Socioeconomic Success: Rethinking the "Pathology of Matriarchy" , in The American Journal of Sociology, September 1999, Vol. 105, No.2, pp 321-353.(Electronic Reserves)
Boggess, Scott, (1998) "Family Structure, Economic Status and Educational Attainment", in The Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 11, No. 2, (May 1998) pp. 2205-222 (Omit sections 3 and 4). (Paper Reserves)
Ermisch, John F.; Francesconi, Marco (2001), "Family Structure and Children's Achievements", Journal of Population Economics v14, n2 (2001): 249-270. (Paper Reserves)
Garasky, Steven, (1995), "The Efects of Family Structure on Educational Achievement: Do the Effects Vary By the Age of the Child?" in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January 1995, Vol. 54, No. 1. pp. 89 -106.(Electronic Reserves)
Ginther, Donna K., Robert A. Pollak, (2003), "Does Family Structure
Effect Children's Educational Outcomes?" NBER Working Paper,
9628, April 2003. (Electronic
Reserves)
Corak, Miles (2001), "Death and Divorce: The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents", Journal of Labor Economics v19, n3 (July 2001): 682-715. (Electronic Reserves)
Evenhouse, Eirik; Reilly, Siobhan (2004), "A Sibling Study of Stepchild Well-Being", in Journal of Human Resources v39, n1 (Winter 2004): 248-276. (Electronic Reserves)
Gruber, Jonathan, (2000) "Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce", NBER Working Paper 7968, October 2000.(Electronic Reserves in Two Parts)
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. (Electronic Reserves)
Page, Marianne E.; Stevens, Ann Huff (2004), "The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents", in Journal of Human Resources v39, n1 (Winter 2004): 80-107 (Electronic Reserves)
Painter, Gary; Levine, David I. (2000), "Family Structure and Youths'
Outcomes: Which Correlations Are Causal?", Journal of Human Resources
v35, n3 (Summer 2000): 524-549 (Electronic
Reserves- It is in the Family-Human Capital Folder; not the Family-Divorce
Foldeer)
IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (THEORY AND POLICY)
"How Do Families Make Decisions?"
Andreoni, James; Brown, Eleanor; Rischall, Isaac (2003), "Charitable Giving by Married Couples: Who Decides and Why Does It Matter?", Journal of Human Resources v38, n1 (Winter 2003): 111-133. (Electronic Reserves)
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 Studies v40, n4 (April 2003): 733-746. (Electronic Reserves)
Doss, Cheryl R. (2001), "Is Risk Fully Pooled within the Household? Evidence from Ghana", Economic Development and Cultural Change v50, n1 (October 2001): 101-130. (Electronic Reserves)
Ermisch, John, (1993), "Familia Oeconomica: A Survey of the Economics of the Family", in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 40, No. 4, November 1993, pp. 353-374. ( USE PAGES 353-363 ONLY ) (Paper Reserves)
Elul, Ronel; Silva-Reus, Jose; Volij, Oscar (2002), "Will You Marry Me? A Perspective on the Gender Gap", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization v49, n4 (December 2002): 549-572. (Electronic Reserves)
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. (Electronic Reserves - It is at the end of the list.)
Klawon, Emily; Tiefenthaler, Jill , (2001), "Bargaining over Family Size: The Determinants of Fertility in Brazil", Population Research and Policy Review v20, n5 (October 2001): 423-440. (Paper Reserves)
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. (Electronic Reserves)
Lundberg, Shelley; Robert Pollak and Terrance Wales, (1997), "Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources?", The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1997, pp. 463-479. (Electronic Reserves)
Lundberg, Shelly; Startz, Richard; Stillman, Steven (2003), "The
Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach", in Journal
of Public Economics v87, n5-6 (May 2003): 1199-1218. (Electronic Reserves)
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 (Electronic Reserves)
Baughman, Reagan; Dickert-Conlin, Stacy (2003), "Did Expanding the EITC Promote Motherhood?", in American Economic Review v93, n2 (May 2003): 247-251. (Electronic Reserves - at the end of the list)
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. (Paper Reserves)
Hoffman, S. and E. Foster, (2000), "AFDC Benefits and Nonmarital Births to Young Women", in Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 35, pp. 376-391. (Electronic Reserves)
Huang, Chien-Chung (2002), "The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?", Social Service Review v76, n2 (June 2002): 275-301. (Electronic Reserves)
Ratcliffe, Caroline E. (2002), "Premarital Childbearing and Welfare
Receipt: The Role of Mothers' Receipt" in Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, (October 2002), pp 160-178. (Electronic Reserves)
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 Fam,ilies Make Decisions?"
"Do Our Economic Policies Promote Out-of Wedlock Births?"
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?"