randomly assigned to professors over a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender …. Our results suggest that while professor gender has little impact on male students, it has a powerful effect on female … arguably the students who are most suited to careers in science. Indeed, the gender gap in course grades and STEM majors is …

-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …-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 …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …

marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …

of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …