Remarriage and stepfamilies: Strategic sites for family scholarship in the 21st century

MM Sweeney - Journal of marriage and family, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews areas of advancement over the past decade in our understanding of
remarriage and stepfamilies and suggests promising new directions for future work …

Reforming pensions: Principles, analytical errors and policy directions

N Barr, P Diamond - International social security review, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article, sets out a series of principles for pension design rooted in economic theory:
pension systems have multiple objectives, analysis should consider the pension system as a …

Social insurance and the marriage market

P Persson - Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Social insurance is often linked to marriage. Existing evidence suggests small marital
responses to financial incentives and stems from settings where benefits are realized in the …

[BOOK][B] Inequalities of love: College-educated Black women and the barriers to romance and family

AY Clarke - 2011 - books.google.com
Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to
describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, and have children. While …

The impact of violent conflicts on households: What do we know and what should we know about war widows?

T Brück, K Schindler - Measuring Vulnerability in Developing …, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper analyses how mass violent conflict and the legacy of conflict affect households in
developing countries. It does so by pointing out how violent conflict impairs a household's …

The death of marriage? The effects of new forms of legal recognition on marriage rates in the United States

M Dillender - Demography, 2014 - read.dukeupress.edu
Some conservative groups argue that allowing same-sex couples to marry reduces the
value of marriage to opposite-sex couples. This article examines how changes in US legal …

Women's income and marriage markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War pension

L Salisbury - The Journal of Economic History, 2017 - cambridge.org
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, Union Army widows were entitled to pensions;
however, they lost these pensions if they remarried. Using a database compiled from …

[HTML][HTML] Social Security spouse and survivor benefits for the modern family

MM Favreault - 2007 - webarchive.urban.org
Social Security spouse and survivor benefits advantage single-earner families relative to
dual-earner families paying the same total taxes. Our paper considers earnings sharing …

Marriage in Old Age: What Can We Learn about Policy Impacts on Same-Sex Couples?

L Friedberg, E Isaac - National Tax Journal, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Tax or transfer benefits in the United States are often conditioned on marital status, creating
complicated incentives that reward marriage for some couples and penalize it for others …

[PDF][PDF] The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being

A Aizer, S Cho, S Eli, A Lleras-Muney - American Economic Journal …, 2022 - sharieli.ca
We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions,
America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on …