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Economic circumstances, particularly womens employment, are related to family formation and dissolution both as cause and effect. This programme develops attempts to quantify these processes. It also seeks to measure the distributional implications of demographic changes. Here are examples of questions addressed. How do different patterns of marriage and childbearing affect womens subsequent incomes and pension rights? How much are a persons chances of survival, reproduction or co-residence with others affected by their command over economic resources? How have income difference between men and women been changing? How sensitive are the answers to varying assumptions about how families pool resources? Is poverty in Britain becoming more or less "feminized"? Existing survey data is used to estimate responses between demographic and economic factors and also to summarize changes in various descriptions of economic inequality in successive cross-sectional household surveys in Britain. The lifetime perspective is extended by building simulation models of individual and family income over time. To see how far contrasts in the institutions of two different welfare states are reflected in patterns of employment and family building, collaborators in Sweden are running parallel analyses of the event histories of Swedish women.

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