Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

Toward understanding assortative matching, this is a self-contained introduction to research
on search and matching. We first explore the nontransferable and perfectly transferable …

Among the extraordinary shocks to household life caused by the Covid-19 pandemic was
the sudden shift to distance learning in K-12 schools. Gone were Monday through Friday …

Metrics matter for policy and policy matters for well-being. In this report, the co-chairs of the
OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and …

This book owes much to other people. There are, first and foremost, my coauthors in the
fields of poverty and income distribution, with whom it has been a great pleasure to work …

We study how health behaviors are shaped through family spillovers. We leverage
administrative data to identify the effects of health shocks on family members' consumption …

We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main
objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account …

Using data on user attributes and interactions from an online dating site, we estimate mate
preferences, and use the Gale-Shapley algorithm to predict stable matches. The predicted …

We estimate mate preferences using a novel data set from an online dating service. The
data set contains detailed information on user attributes and the decision to contact a …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men
and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of …