I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive ability measure (AFQT), family background variables and unobserved … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the …

"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the …

which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the … industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …