achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …

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, children's 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 …

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than menś …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …