that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … marriage, as well as lower rates of divorce. This move is driven by women, not men. We document substantial long-run earnings …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples …

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor market …

sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …