This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor … market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are … (2000), I research whether gender identity affects boys' and girls' educational choices and when the gendered pattern …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …

, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is … typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is … approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of …

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability …

the returns to a first degree for men changed very little across the two cohorts while the return for women declined …