Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Racial Inequality

• “Information and Racial Exclusion” (with Richard Startz), Journal of Population Economics, July 2007, 20(3), pp. 621-642.

Family Behavior

• “The American Family and Family Economics” (with Robert Pollak), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, 21(2), pp. 3-26.
  
  
• “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). forthcoming in Frontiers in Gender Economics, ed. Francesca Bettio, Routledge

Decision-making by Children

• “Decision Making By Children” (with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang)
  
  
• "Independence Giving or Autonomy Taking? Childhood Predictors of Decision-Making Patterns Between Young Adolescents and Parents," ( with Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang) forthcoming in Journal of Research on Adolescence. Available upon request.

Sons and Daughters

• “Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, [ Abstract] [ Paper]
  
  
• “Sons, Daughters, Wives, and the Labour Market Outcomes of West German Men” forthcoming in Labour Economics (with Hyung-Jai Choi and Jutta M. Joesch)
  
  
• “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”, Labour Economics, August 2005, pp. 591-612. (Presented as the Adam Smith Lecture, European Association of Labour Economists Annual Meeting, 2004).