I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash … transfer policies may not necessarily hasten educational and gender transition in the process of development …

learning methods that allow for model selection and estimation simultaneously in a non-parametric setting. I find that OLS …

power for the gender gap in the choice of STEM as a college major – they can explain about 36% as much as absolute … school-cohorts can explain about 6% of the STEM gender gap in mixed-sex schools and about 16% of the difference in the STEM … gender gap between mixed-sex schools and same-sex schools. Notably, these effects occur even though within-school rank plays …

, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is … typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is … approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of …

women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …

California's paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave during the period surrounding child birth … and around the time that temporary disability insurance benefits are exhausted for women – is consistent with causal …

differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …