This paper suggests that extensive Nordic family friendly policies designed to support work – family balance and to increase social and gender equality do not achieve the aim of minimising … Read more
Family Life Courses, Gender, and Mid-Life Earnings
Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk‐and‐Vulnerability Approach
This study offers a new approach to analyzing life course inequalities and applies it to the link between divorce and poverty. Previous research has suggested that divorce drives cumulative inequality … Read more
Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
This research shows that when an individual has a baby can be directly linked to the fertility decisions not only of their closest family and colleagues but of wider networks. … Read more
Family Size and the Persistency of Poverty following Divorce: The United States in Comparative Perspective
This paper assesses how the short- and medium-term economic consequences of divorce on women vary by family size. It finds, surprisingly, that having children contributes to a woman’s economic recovery … Read more
The Complexity of Employment & Family Life Courses across 20th Century Europe: An Update
It is a common perception in public debate that lives have become more unstable over the past decades. The authors put this to a broad empirical test using data from … Read more
Why is there an educational gradient in union dissolution? The strain thesis revisited
This study finds that lower educated couples are more likely to separate than their better educated peers, because they experience strain across multiple aspects of their life, including work, finance, … Read more
Parenthood Wage Gaps across the Life-Course: An Intersectional Comparison by Gender and Race
This paper investigates the wage penalties and premiums for parents and how they play out over their lives depending on how many children they have and their race and gender. … Read more
Intersectional inequalities in work and family life courses by gender and race
This paper looks at the different privileges and constraints that men and women face as they juggle the demands of jobs and careers with having a family. Using data from … Read more
Divorced and Unemployed: the Declining Association between Two Critical Lifecourse States in the UK, 1984-2017
This paper aims to establish the prevalence of people in the UK who are either divorced or separated and also unemployed (DSU). It also investigates whether education level or gender … Read more
Long-term changes in married couples’ labor supply and taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s
This study uses large-scale survey data from Europe and the United States to ask what factors have affected decisions made by married couples about whether to work, and for how … Read more