This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …

research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …

of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result …

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …

of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …

Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …