Thursday, May 3 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Continental Parlor 8-9

Session 61:
Public Policy and Families Around the World

Chair: John Strauss, University of Southern California
Discussant: Amar A. Hamoudi, Duke University
Discussant: Elizabeth Peters, Urban Institute

  1. Women's Marital Trajectories and the Accumulation of Pension Rights in Germany and the U.S. • Anika Rasner, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

  2. The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up • Emily Wiemers, University of Massachusetts at Boston

  3. Surplus Chinese Men: Three Factors to Guide Future Chinese Fertility Policies • Catherine D. Tucker, Pennsylvania State University

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