This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit … attracts the interest of potential adoptive parents with probability 11.5% if it is a girl and 7.9% if it is a boy. As for race …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …

score gap between these students that cannot be explained by differences in individual and family characteristics. Moreover … immigrants’ children substantially. This disparity is largest when conditioning on the language spoken at home, and prevails even … when comparing only students whose parents migrated from the same country of origin. …