Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western …

Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating
occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career …

Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital,
and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor …

This paper develops a growth theory that captures the replacement of physical capital
accumulation by human capital accumulation as a prime engine of growth along the process …

We study culture by examining the work and fertility behavior of second-generation
American women. Culture is proxied with past female labor force participation and total …

This paper argues that the growing presence of a new type of man—one brought up in a
family in which the mother worked—has been a significant factor in the increase in female …

Recent theories endogenize the attitude endowments of individuals, assuming that they are
shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. This paper tests empirically for the …