We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … both address this problem. First, we look at a sample of dizygotic (i.e. non-identical) twins. Second, we use a large …

of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …

substantial benefits from schooling regardless of whether they enter the labor market. Our estimates reveal that the return to … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent … return to schooling in the labor market. By using birth order, sibship size, percent of male siblings, and parental education …

of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we …

other is the 1997 increase in compulsory level of schooling from five to eight years. However, due to the possibility of …

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 …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …