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 … same-sex sibling increases men's earnings and family formation outcomes (marriage and number of children), as compared to …

provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

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

wage gap than years of schooling and work experience. In decompositions, adjusting for skill mismatch decreases the gender …We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender …

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 …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …

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

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

, 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 …