My Family Structure Interests

• "Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality," with Michael Brien and Lee Lillard, International Economic Review, May 2006.
• "Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in Equilibrium," with Shannon Seitz (incomplete).
• "Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information," with Leora Friedberg.
• Marriage and Divorce with Leora Friedberg, Economics Uncut.
• Draft of Econ Uncut Chapter for Leora
• The right way to think about marriage
• Info on Reasons to Cohabit and to Not Cohabit from the National Survey of Families and Households
• Info on Asymmetric Information in Marriage from the National Survey of Families and Households
• Maxim Engers, Alex Zhylyevskyy, and I are working on a bargaining model with private information to explain bargaining over proper subsets of issues. We will use this model to explain why we see couples fighting over some issues and not fighting over other issues simultaneously.
• "Preliminary Report on Child Care Subsidies for the Commission on Children and Families," with Dan Becker.

• Note for Maxim and Alex on simulation.

Students Working on Family Structure

• Chris Swann - 4/96. "A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program;" Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Michigan, Department of Economics (Visiting Professor 1 year); State University of New York, Stony Brook (permanent).
• Fredrick Holt - 4/97. "The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis." Placement: Bureau of the Census.
• Michelle Sheran - 6/01. "The Career and Family Decisions of Women: A Dynamic Analysis of Labor Force Participation, Schooling, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions." Placement: University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
• Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy - 5/08. "A Bad Peace is Better Than a Good War: A Structural Model of Marital Disagreements." Placement: Iowa State Univerity.
• Rachna Maheshwari, "A Dynamic Analysis of Career and Family Choices of Women."
• Chris Clapp, "Should My Car Move or Should We? An Intra-Household Model of Residential and Commuting Choices."
• Mariusz Kolczykiewicz, "The Impact of the Mother's Decision to Marry on Child Outcomes."

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