contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these cross effectsʺ of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute …

contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these quot;cross effectsquot; of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in …

contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these “cross effects” of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …-related and only paid for up to 14 months. Higher-income households benefited more from the reform than low-income households. We …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

shock associated with childbearing and early childrearing in these environments. Gender-neutral family policies have been … adopted in some professions in an attempt to "level the playing field." The gender-neutral tenure clock stopping policies … universe of assistant professor hires at top-50 economics departments from 1985-2004, we show that the adoption of gender …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

crucial for understanding the persistent gender inequality in the labor market. We show that the prevalent approach to … birth is crucial for both methodological correctness and a deeper understanding of gender inequality. Our approach yields … related gender gaps in Germany are even larger than previously thought. Moreover, we demonstrate that effects and their …