Topic: Erik Hurst

Marriage Reinforces an Economic Class System

Big Think - 368 days ago
Dollars and Sex Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . It is fairly well known that at the end of the marriage market couples seem to be fairly tidily sorted...

Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 857 days ago
we find that higher-educated parents spend more time with their children; for example, mothers with a college education or greater spend roughly 4.5 hours more per week in child care than mothers with a high school degree or less. From an ...

Retirement, Race and the Next President

SmartMoney - 1194 days ago
We need a national discussion about race and retirement, and here's why: It's true that white households earn about twice as much as African-American households: Meanwhile, compared with a white family of equal income, a black family will spend 29 ...