unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

change the gender gaps in the intergenerational transmission. Our results are robust to different model specifications and …

marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

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 … less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both … the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied … experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A possible …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage …