differences in social mobility and persistence. …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

differences in social mobility and persistence …

inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …

, administrative matched employer-employee data. The distributional analysis is then conducted by transposing predicted employment … effects of actual output shocks to household-level microdata. A scenario in which labor demand adjustments occur at the …

, administrative matched employer-employee data. The distributional analysis is then conducted by transposing predicted employment … effects of actual output shocks to household-level microdata. A scenario in which labor demand adjustments occur at the …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …