Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … divorce has little effect on women’s mean household income. However, using a Quantile Treatment Effect methodology (Abadie et … very high household income. It appears that some women successfully generate income through child support, welfare …

Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical … techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …

organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is … captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … are free to accept or reject marriage proposals. Married agents make their decisions through bargaining about work, and …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly … cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men … are somewhat more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women, but in general the patterns …