exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … Germans through migration and commuting. A comparison of East and West German mothers on both sides of the former Inner German … border within the same commuting zone shows that culture matters. Indeed, East German mothers return to work more quickly and …

mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys. We use the experimental …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …