sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in …

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions … reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more …

In this paper, we investigate how attachment to religion is connected to conservative gender role beliefs and to what … extent they, in turn, materialize into fertility decisions. We also test the hypothesis that exposure to gender …-progressive political regimes and ideology can weaken this chain of effects, by eroding either the way religion shapes gender roles or the …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to … higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …