Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and … instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest …

Uneven family responsibilities are at the root of gender gaps. Using a new dataset covering all firm-level agreements … negotiation of family-friendly policies with management. We compare firms that operate under the same set of labor regulations but … the bargaining table can help transform workplaces to better meet women’s needs and ultimately close the gender gap. …

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …

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 …

on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the … to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers …