across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship … stylized facts no longer universally hold. In high-income countries, the income-fertility relationship has flattened and in … fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …

increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

increasing in male primary earner s income, and in most specifications in female primary earner s income. Higher education of … either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most likely to emigrate …

children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …

potential ageing processes specific to gender and physique. Fourth, fractional polynomials have been added to the testing …. -- Labor productivity ; ageing economics ; economics of gender …

potential ageing processes specific to gender and physique. Fourth, fractional polynomials have been added to the testing …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …