This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully …

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on … within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by … 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is not clear why early marriage would interfere with the pursuit of … state minimum-age marriage laws (EMA), we find that EMA precipitated marriage, delayed fertility within marriage, and …

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …