enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …

sons over daughters, differential costs, role models or complementary costs, but is consistent with a theory of parity …Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … contrast with the United States, I find no evidence that the gender of the first child has a significant impact on the decision …

rates to: (1) the fathers’ preferences for sons; or (2) the differential needs of boys and girls. The results suggest both … theories have merit. First, fathers of newborn sons report greater marital happiness, but mothers do not. This supports the … “demand for sons” hypothesis. Second, analysis of divorce rates provides evidence for both causal theories. In particular, I …

This article examines how women's efforts at capital accumulation and wealth production in late nineteenth …-century United States were shaped and channeled by gender stereotypes. These stereotypes influenced the public attitudes held by both … men and women that called into question women's financial capabilities, their relationship to money and the financial …

potential target groups for a project to implement nonformal educational programmes for women. …

children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children … analysis. First, the authors estimate the correlation between the female's education and her number of children, and then the … authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero …

, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2 extra months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender …-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …