Working Papers

Racial Inequality

• “Information and Racial Exclusion” (with Dick Startz) forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics.

Family Behavior

• “Saving for Retirement:  Household Bargaining and Household Net Worth” (with Jennifer Ward-Batts)
  
  
• “Limits to Specialization: Family Policy and Economic Efficiency”
  
  
• “Gender and Household Decision-making” (Lecture notes, University of Siena International School of Economic Research, XVIII Workshop on Gender and Economics, 4-7^th July 2005).
  
  

Sons and Daughters

• “Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005. [Abstract] [Paper]
  
  
• “Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men”
  (with Hyung-Jai Choi and Jutta M. Joesch)
  
  
• “Child Gender and Father Involvement in Fragile Families” (with Sara McLanahan and Elaina Rose)
  
  
• “The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?”
  
  
• “Time Allocation of Parents and Investments in Sons and Daughters,” (with Sabrina Pabilonia and Jennifer Ward-Batts)
  
  

Adam Smith Lecture, European Association of Labour Economists Annual Meeting, 2004

· “Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics” now published in Labour Economics