monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …

monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between …-sibling variation in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children's socio …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and …

since the 1980s, particularly pronounced among men in more gender-egalitarian households (proxied by the father's share of …

ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions … the threshold. To investigate the role of gender norms, we compare the effect of economic incentives among older, more … traditional families and younger families. Our results indicate that both gender norms and economic incentives affect parental …