This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to …

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease …

the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce … workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …

Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …

family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …

estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …