Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …

absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the … number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than … they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be …

towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six … employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …

Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the … Skilled Worker category have earnings that are 29% higher for men and 38% higher for women. These differences persist even … women. Child Arrival immigrants landing in the Skilled Worker Class have earnings advantages (as adults) over their Family …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner's labour market status and local economic …

lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …,000 for women born in the late 1960s. Over 80% of the change in this gap can be explained by variables in our model, with …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …