marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

which have occurred over the past decades; delayed entry into marriage and decline in fertility levels across both developed … marriage timing and fertility level differences using both economic and cultural factors. The results indicate that economic … suggest that both economic and cultural factors are important in explaining differences in marriage timing and fertility …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …