Although management research on work-life flexibility policies has occurred for over 40
years, it is underdeveloped with inconsistent results. We argue that this is due to theorizing …

That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

We study estimation of causal effects in staggered-rollout designs—that is, settings where
there is staggered treatment adoption and the timing of treatment is as good as randomly …

Since 1950, marriage behavior in the United States has changed dramatically. Though most
men and women still marry at some point in their lives, they now do so later and are more …

Since 1950 there have been dramatic changes in patterns of marriage and divorce in the
United States. Americans now marry later and are more likely to divorce. More men and …

Social insurance is often linked to marriage. Existing evidence suggests small marital
responses to financial incentives and stems from settings where benefits are realized in the …

This paper explores the potential benefit of enforcements in Child Support policies to child
mortality rates. Exploiting the sharp changes in Child Support laws across states and over …

Marriage rates have become increasingly stratified by homeownership. We investigate this
in a household model where investments in public goods reduce future earnings and, thus …

We perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on crime. For mothers,
criminal arrests drop precipitously in the first few months of pregnancy, decreasing 50 …

Parenting practices play a crucial role in child development. We evaluate the impact of a free
digital stress management and positive parenting intervention designed to reduce the …