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 …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …

We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …

mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …

In recent years, the traditional gender gap in educational attainment in favor of men has been reversed in many … markets with a larger female advantage in education men had fewer children and were less likely to be in a couple by age 40. I …

number of children growing up outside of marriage. …

We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in … Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference …

results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substan-tially lower shares of natives among their neighbors … wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters …

) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children's health outcomes disappears if we …