I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

also has a persistent effect on gender equality by empowering women’s careers …The gender education gap has been narrowing worldwide in recent decades. We provide the first causal evidence on how … foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the gender education gap. By exploiting the quasi-exogenous deregulation of FDI entry …