Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...

We analyze if men’s fertility has become more intimately related to their noncognitive ability during the last decades. In particular, are the men with low noncognitive ability – who have lost the most in the labor market – also losing ground in terms of fertility? Using high-quality...

Since 1974, Swedish fathers and mothers have been granted an equal number of parental leave days. Despite multiple reforms aimed at encouraging fathers to take parental leave, a significant portion, more than a fifth, of fathers still choose not to take any leave before their child turns two....

Several experimental studies on altruism have found women to be more generous than men. We investigate whether observed gender gaps in generosity can be explained by experimental setting, where some settings are more conducive than others to activating gender identity and social norms. In a...

We model team formation as a random matching process influenced by agents’ preferences for team size and gender composition. We then test if the coauthorship pattern in articles published during 1991–2002 in three top economics journals is gender neutral, exploiting variation in female...

In this paper the skill distribution is proposed as being fundamental for technological transitions, besides the economic and political variables normally considered. The setting is an endogenous growth model with non-overlapping generations, where agents are heterogeneous with respect to...

In this paper, we test the argument that the sizeable reduction in aggregate aid levels in the 1990s was due to the end of the Cold War. We test two different models using a dynamic econometric specification on a panel of 17 donor countries, spanning the years 1970-97. We find aid to be...