The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

Brad Wilcox and Kathryn Sharpe of the University of Virginia have taken a fascinating fresh look at sectors of the economy most influenced by marriage and fertility.

Linda Basch is certainly correct that the entry of so many women into the labour force has been good for the economy, good for society and good for women themselves (I would add that it has been good for men as well). But she is wrong when she implies that full-time mothers have made an unworthy choice.

Although U.S. government assistance has dramatically increased for low-income families with children, the childless poor have been forgotten.

I am deeply moved and honored more than I can say by this award from my esteemed colleagues and friends at AEI, and especially because of its association with the name and memory of Irving Kristol, a man for all seasons. Irving Kristol was my teacher, editor, mentor, patron, and...

It is in pursuit of happiness that we measure our gross national happiness.

Among the top items left on the Senate's to-do list before the November elections is a "paycheck fairness" bill, which is predicated on the wage gap between men and women, but the bill is not as commonsensical as it might seem.

Alan D. Viard discusses the complications posed by the needless complexity of tax incentives, income-based phase-outs, and the alternative minimum tax.