after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …

after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …

changes in fertility, child schooling and lifetime married female labor supply as a consequence of exogenous changes in health … child mortality lead to a modest decline in human capital and increase in fertility, with little effect on married female … labor force involvement. In sharp contrast, reductions in morbidity are found to lower fertility and increase education. The …

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

We study the effect of race on economic outcomes using unique data from the first half of the twentieth century, a … passing was associated with substantially higher earnings, suggesting that social presentations of race could have significant …