documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra … need for data on the time family members spend on domestic work as well as on labor supply. An approach of this kind is …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … long lasting institutions like religion, legal traditions, and family practices, also matter. This paper provides an … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and … we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …