While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …, sibling spacing and family size). We find that having a disabled sibling significantly decreases 9th grade exit exam GPAs …

autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …'s propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood relative. Exposure to the reform altered women's preferences in favor of personal …

, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is … typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is … approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of …

Despite the general closure of gender disparities in the labor market over the past half century, occupational … market signaling. Vertically differentiated men have preference over women’s unobservable caregiving ability. Heterogenous … women choose caregiving occupations to signal their ability to be caregivers. My model generates unique predictions on the …

earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under different assumptions about assortative mating and women's earnings … mobility to a great extent. Instead, the relative earnings distributions of men and women, in combination with sorting, are …

equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If female workers experience higher frictions in nonagricultural sectors …

women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …