We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a …

addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …

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

This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … narrows the gender gap in numeracy and literacy test scores by 14.8% and 21.4% of a standard deviation in the rural sample and …