The authors examine the effects of poverty-related adversity on child development, drawing
upon psychobiological principles of experiential canalization and the biological embedding …

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show that
the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of …

Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play
in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship …

This article reexamines the thesis that marriage is becoming deinstitutionalized. It first
reviews relevant theoretical literature on social institutions, including the “new …

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social
problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at …

We investigate whether an increase in the potential earnings of men leads to an increase in
marriage and a reduction in nonmarital births by exploiting the positive economic shock …

It is widely documented that places with higher levels of income inequality have lower rates
of social mobility. But it is an open question as to whether this reflects a causal relationship …

Over the last half century, US wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-
force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these …

This study examines how the exposure to robots and its heterogeneous effects on the labor
market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus on the …

Informed behavior change as an HIV prevention tool has yielded unequal successes across
populations. Despite decades of HIV education, some individuals remain at high risk. The …