Roy\u27s Wife

[written above music staff]Roy\u27s wife of Aldivalloch! Roy\u27s wife of Aldivalloch!Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o\u27er the braes of Balloch!She vowed, she swore she wad bemine;She said she lo\u27ed me best of ony;But ah, the fickle, faithless, faithless queen!She\u27s ta\u27en the earl, and left he Jonnie. Though you leave me now in sorrow,Smiles may light our love tomorrow,Doomed to part my faithful heart,A gleam of joy from hope shall borrow.Ah! ne\u27er forget when friends are near,This heart alone is thine forever,Thou may\u27st find those will love thee, love thee dear,But not a love like mine, O never. O, she was a canty quean;Weel could she dance the Highland walloch;How happy I had she been mine,Or I been Roy of Aldivalloch!Roy\u27s wife, &c. Her hair sae fair, her e\u27en sae clear,her wee bit mou\u27sae sweet and bonnie-To me she ever will be dear,Though she\u27s forever left her Jonnie.Roy\u27s wife, &c

Spending by Asian Families

[Excerpt] Tables regularly published as part of the Consumer Expenditure Survey program were expanded with the release of the 2003 data. A new column, “Asian,” was added to the table that shows expenditures by the race of the reference person. Member relationships within consumer units (CUs) with an Asian reference person consisted of 32.2 percent husband and wife with children, 30.0 percent single, 16.4 percent husband and wife only, 2.0 percent single parent with children, and 19.4 percent other. Among CUs consisting of husband and wife with children and who reported an Asian reference person, 87.7 percent comprised all Asian members. This summary highlights spending by Asian families in 2003 from the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey, wherein a family is defined as a CU comprising husband and wife with children, an Asian family is one in which all family members are Asians, and other family is one in which not all family members are reported as Asians

The Inadequate Police Protection of Battered Wives: Can a city and its police be held liable under the equal protection clause?

The police strive to settle the vast majority of wife battering cases without arrest or through mediation, often leading to terrible results for the abused wife. This Note supports holding a city and its police liable under the equal protection clause for the inadequate police protection of battered wives. The Note finds the best legal strategy under the equal protection clause would involve showing impermissible gender-based discrimination

The News Today (according to the Guardian)

A satirical poem collaged from news headline

Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses: is she outearning him?.

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households. The proportion of wives outearning their husbands was 18% for dual-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household labour supply behaviour, we show that households where the wife is the main earner may come about either because the husband has a weaker preference for work than his wife, due possibly to her high wage, or because he is hit by adverse circumstances, such as, for example, a decline in the demand for men with his particular qualifications. Positive assortative mating may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household, endogenizing wages and allowing for random effects and correlations in spouses’ unobservables. We conclude that the determinants of wife-sole-earner households are quite distinct from those for dual-earner households where she outearns him. The probability of observing the first seems to be more related to labour market difficulties of the husband, while the latter is not. Dual-earners where she outearns him are more likely to be found among higher educated couples, and especially, among couple where the wife’s education level is high.Marriage;work behaviour;household economics;

Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households. The proportion of wives outearning their husbands was 18% for dual-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household labour supply behaviour, we show that households where the wife is the main earner may come about either because the husband has a weaker preference for work than his wife, due possibly to her high wage, or because he is hit by adverse circumstances, such as, for example, a decline in the demand for men with his particular qualifications. Positive assortative mating may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household, endogenizing wages and allowing for random effects and correlations in spouses’ unobservables. We conclude that the determinants of wife-sole-earner households are quite distinct from those for dual-earner households where she outearns him. The probability of observing the first seems to be more related to labour market difficulties of the husband, while the latter is not. Dual-earners where she outearns him are more likely to be found among higher educated couples, and especially, among couple where the wife’s education level is high.marriage, work behaviour, household economics

Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses: Is she outearning him?

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households. The proportion of wives outearning their husbands was 18% for dual-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household labour supply behaviour, we show that households where the wife is the main earner may come about either because the husband has a weaker preference for work than his wife, due possibly to her high wage, or because he is hit by adverse circumstances, such as, for example, a decline in the demand for men with his particular qualifications. Positive assortative mating may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household, endogenizing wages and allowing for random effects and correlations in spouses’ unobservables. We conclude that the determinants of wife-sole-earner households are quite distinct from those for dual-earner households where she outearns him. The probability of observing the first seems to be more related to labour market difficulties of the husband, while the latter is not. Dual-earners where she outearns him are more likely to be found among higher educated couples, and especially, among couple where the wife’s education level is high.Marriage, work behaviour, household economics.