We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

mating plays an important role. On average about 40-50 percent of the covariance between parents? and own permanent family …

, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …