Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate …

contraceptives increased their children's college completion, labor force participation, wages, and family incomes decades later. …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the … sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through …

is not present for very young children. We next examine differences in specific parental teaching activities such as …

fertility. The paper suggests a link between changes in mortality and transformations in the role of women in society that has … capital and to have children. Particularly, gains in adult longevity reduce fertility, increase investments in market human … capital, increase female labor force participation, and reduce the wage differential between men and women. Child mortality …

contrast to tournaments, which are often avoided by women, we find that women choose team-based pay at least as frequently as … women's more optimistic assessments of their prospective teammate's ability and men's greater responsiveness to efficiency … gains associated with team production. Women also respond differently to alternative rules for team formation in a manner …

should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and … in women's mean log wages. Finally, we make a first attempt to gauge the relative importance of selection versus …

important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational … of increase in the importance of people skills between the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women%u2019s … wages increased more rapidly while the wages of blacks grew more slowly over these years relative to earlier years. …