division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …

not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and … women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender …

We use cross-national data on 26 EU countries to assess how much children and the responsibilities related to them … contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our … analysis is based on a decomposition that reveals what portion of the gender wage gap may be attributed to: (1) the motherhood …

division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …

biological parents. Adopting mothers by definition do not experience sex-specific comparative advantage in childcare due to …-pregnancy related factors determine the observed gender inequality in the child penalty. I find large and significant child penalty for … all mothers, although slightly smaller for the adopting mothers than for the biological mothers. Neither adopting nor …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model explains a substantial fraction of the differences in …

This paper decomposes the differences in aggregate market hours between US and Europe across gender-skill groups and …. We develop a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. Taxes, which reduce …