, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where every new person is …

diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at first birth, completed family size, and childlessness. Both genes and … by the diffusion of the pill are magnified by gene-environment interactions, while the decline in family size and the …-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …

on family care. We find that East German women suffer significantly more from unemployment than West German women. This … well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field …

their partners and themselves (i.e., the expected within-family gender gap). Treatment effects persist in a follow-up survey … expected within-family gender gap. Together our results suggest that social norms play an important role in shaping gender gaps …

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …

, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a … roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …