Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults … with adults, and, while girls take more risk than women, boys take less risk than men. We also find that female behavior is …

I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage … theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a higher rate and earn a lower average income than men. Differential …-specific relationships between age at marriage and income, as well as the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income …

-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected … parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …'s counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long … not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation. …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … fixed effects estimation. We obtain modest but significant effects of fetal growth rate on math and reading scores, with the …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …