a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and … increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent …

public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and … increases the probability of election for women and decreases it for men. The impact of the quota on quality depends on the … public oce are low, or when the rewards from pubic office are high but women are significantly discriminated against in the …

-force participation, fertility and age at first marriage. By 1987, Australian women were more likely than men to be enrolled at university … the early 1950s, the university-educated gender gap began to reduce in response to women’s changing expectations of labour …