educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

the 1870-1930 period. We proxy the gender wage gap with the level of per capita income and the cost of disenfranchisement …. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after … controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics. …

parenthood varies with a number of characteristics of a woman and her family. In particular, we find that lone mothers with a job …

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …