Drawing on data from the American Community Survey, we compare patterns of assortative mating in first marriages, remarriages, and mixed-order marriages.
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Chetty et al. (2014b) show that children from low-income families achieve higher adult incomes, relative to those from higher income families, in some commuting zones (CZs) than in others. I investigate whether children’s educational outcomes help to explain the between-CZ differences.
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This paper uses quarterly county-level data to examine the relationship between opioid prescription rates and employment-to-population ratios from 2006–2014.
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Recent studies show that texting-based interventions can produce educational benefits in children across a range of ages.
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The ongoing decline in the gender wage gap and many other types of gender inequality slowed down or stalled entirely in the 1990s.
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Over the last half century, as women entered the labor force in large numbers, they have had the opportunity to supplement their kin and friendship networks with coworker networks. It is still the case that women have more kin and friendship ties than men.
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By age 25 to 26, one in three women and one in seven men experience behavior at work that they define as sexual harassment. Very few women file lawsuits in response to sexual harassment.
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As audit studies spread and take hold, a large body of compelling evidence on gender discrimination in hiring has developed. This evidence reveals that not all women experience the same amount of discrimination.
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Nearly half of the women in the labor force would have to move to a different occupation to eliminate all occupational segregation by gender. Gender segregation increased in the 1950s and 1960s, declined quite sharply in the 1970s and 1980s, but stalled starting in the 1990s.
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Because women have primary responsibility for the care of children, women use social safety net programs more often than men. Gender differences in safety net use cannot be fully explained by gender differences in family type.
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