, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …

mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

efficiently between physical bequests and educational investments, while poor parents only afford investments in children's human …. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources … capital. Therefore, educational equality between rich and poor children is not necessarily promoted by further investments in …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … because they (1) are less likely to work in STEM occupations, and (2) have more children. Our findings show that the school …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …