preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … schooling and labor supply, although fertility effects show more persistence. …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply …

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high … education and IQ are less likely to marry, and thus have less income through their husbands. To identify personality traits, I …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate … unmeasured determinants of proficiency exist between spouses, between siblings, and between parents and children, although the …