-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave differently if she is optimizing subject to a … family constitution, than if she is moved by either altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … family constitution exists, but will have the opposite effect if the transfer is either a gift, or payments for services …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …

children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting … parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in mathematics (a male-stereotyped subject), whereas there are no gender … differences for reading. Consistent with an information friction hypothesis, we find that the parental gender bias disappears for …

This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several … sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport …