find that differences in the wealth, circumstances and family status of women can explain between 58% and 99% of the gap in …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …

work abroad during the same time period when they can bear children, their additional income generates a substitution … when they bear children, their additional income generates the income effect on fertility, which is not different from that …

matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation …This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …