Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

Past research that asserts a fatherhood wage premium often ignores the heterogeneity of
fathering contexts. I expect fatherhood to produce wage gains for men if it prompts them to alter …

Despite a large literature investigating how spouses’ earnings and division of labor relate to
their risk of divorce, findings remain mixed and conclusions elusive. Core unresolved …

In this comment, we offer a nontechnical discussion of conventional (conditional) multivariate
quantile regression, with an emphasis on the appropriate interpretation of results. We …

Married men’s wage premium is often attributed to within-household specialization: men can
devote more effort to wage-earning when their wives assume responsibility for household …

The autonomy perspective of housework time predicts that wives’ housework time falls steadily
as their earnings rise, because wives use additional financial resources to outsource or …

Prior research on parenthood effects has typically used single-sex models and estimated
average effects. By contrast, we estimate population-level variability in partners' changes in …

Previous research on maternal employment has disproportionately focused on the immediate
postpartum period and typically modeled either cross-sectional employment status or time …

Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth
inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective reflective of …

Charter schools--public schools of choice that are operated autonomously, outside the direct
control of local school districts--have become more prevalent over the past two decades. …