earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

consequence of these differences, the various requirements of employment law cannot simultaneously be satisfied. Further, if … promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …'s (1997) finding of a basically insignificant effect of marital sorting on inequality, we find that increased marital sorting … will significantly increase income inequality. Three factors are central to our findings: a negative correlation between …

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … mathematics, and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We …

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of … existence of ability premiums, an innovation in the relative demand for more educated labor increases educational inequality in … the short run, but, ceteris paribus, would decrease educational inequality in the long run. Second, in the long run …