What is driving the racial marriage gap in the United States?
Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Nezih Guner, and Christopher Rauh use a new model to address the question of what drives the marriage gap between black and white women in the United States.
Topic Archive: Economic Welfare
Do prenatal child benefits improve infant health outcomes?
Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová study the effect of a cash transfer targeting new mothers in Spain on their subsequent children’s health.
Measuring inequality from above
Jose G. Montalvo, Marta Reynal-Querol, and Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora explore the potential of using luminosity at night to construct measures of inequality.
Colonial settlers and economic development in Latin America
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol show a relevant effect of the skills of first colonizers on long-run levels of development in Latin America.
