This issue features the freely-accessible lead article “The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples” by Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish, which explores the hypothesis that differently-aged couples are less resilient to negative shocks than couples comprised of similarly-aged partners. This issue also features the following contributions:
- Birth order and health of newborns by A.A. Brenøe & R. Molitor
- Missing time with parents: son preference among Asians in the USA by N. Kaushal & F.M. Muchomba
- Disease risk and fertility: evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic by Y.-M. Chin & N. Wilson
- Women’s economic capacity and children’s human capital accumulation by J. de Hoop, P. Premand, F. Rosati, & R. Vakis
- Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households by G. Foster & L.S. Stratton
- The intergenerational transmission of noncognitive skills and their effect on education and employment outcomes by I. Mendez & G. Zamarro
- The effects of school desegregation on mixed-race births by N. Gordon & S. Reber
- Undocumented youth in limbo: the impact of America’s immigration enforcement policy on juvenile deportations by C. Amuedo-Dorantes & T. Puttitanun
- The impact of party affiliation of US governors on immigrants’ labor market outcomes by L.-P. Beland & B. Unel
