compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …

evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …

. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of … arranged marriages with minimum involvement of the bride. Overall results suggest a change in gender norms after 18 years of …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …