headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions … reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …

higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … divorce risks. Instead, the findings point to explanations which involve family relationship dynamics associated with teenage … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the …

limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …