the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women’s property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women’s economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question by focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …