We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

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 …

preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … with similar gender norms will face a lower chance of marrying. Even if two parties marry despite a difference in gender … without gender norm conflict. Finally, we predict that in the presence of gender norm conflict, high-skilled individuals may …

across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship … stylized facts no longer universally hold. In high-income countries, the income-fertility relationship has flattened and in … fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …