outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls. This change may be plausible in light of the reversal of the gender … the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates and higher sex (boy …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …

when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …

, particularly for second-generation men with children. Our findings suggest that broader cultural factors do influence the gender …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in … groups, education groups and mothers of small children are analyzed separately …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap …