We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … identifies gender differences in preferences that can explain the observed patterns. …

. Given prevailing gender gaps in height and earnings, positive sorting implies it will be rare for women to be taller than …

institutional frameworks can shape fairly persistent gender identity prescriptions that influence house-hold economic decisions for … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework …

This study contributes to the literature on how parenthood affects the within-couple gender earnings gap. It examines …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …