When Mother finds employment outside the home, she is likely to spend part of her paycheck on medical care for her young child. The relationship between a mother’s employment and her child’s illness receives scrutiny in a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Baruch College in New York. That relationship […]

Early onset of puberty spells trouble in Montreal, just as it does in Minneapolis. Underscoring the role of family structure in fostering early puberty, a study by scholars at the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick merits attention as “the first Canadian study to have examined the impact of family context […]

Somewhere the shade of Patrick Moynihan must be saying, “I told you so!” Moynihan was pilloried as a racist troglodyte when he warned in 1965 that the disintegration of black family life was a portent of catastrophe. But the evidence continues to mount showing that Moynihan’s warning was fully warranted. The latest evidence comes from […]

The myth of the glass ceiling continues to be debunked. Challenging the presumption that women are underrepresented in high-status jobs because of discrimination, economists at Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh offer empirical evidence for the more plausible explanation that the two sexes respond differently to competitive environments. Muriel Niederle and Lise Versterlund conducted […]

Researchers have understood for years that marriage improves mental health. A new study, however, finds that matrimony delivers substantive psychological benefits even to those who enter marriage under the cloud of depression. Conductedby sociologists at the Ohio State University, this study clarifies the favorable psychological effects of marriage. To be sure, the authors began their […]