status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … the combination of womens marital status and the type of households in which children reside. We combine references to the … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three …

economic phenomena, affecting not only women, but also their partners and children. This Handbook provides the first … into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and … interdisciplinary research about gender from biology and other disciplines. …

, fertility and labor 1886-2007 in order to map quantitative changes. The paper draws new information from novel Norwegian data …. Along with the changing family relations we also quantify the closing of the gender gap by converging trends for both labor … participation rates and wages. The paper concludes that there is a clear correspondence between gender convergence in the labor …

gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic … zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causes of this gender imbalance. Our analysis suggests that a key … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in …