We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a …

This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community … countries. -- Childcare ; gender differences ; intra-household …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and … cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

the market price for domestic services. We exploit time-diary data for Great Britain and France, relying on cross … price measure. -- time use ; domestic work ; gender …