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In this paper we try to identify the relative wage differential between men and women. In the last decade even the education gap has vanished, there is still a constant gap in labor market performance of men and women. The paper aims to explain this gap by accounting for the investment of women to the future job market performance of her children. To do so, we impose a dynamic structure for the utility problem of men and women.

Home Hours, Returns to Education and the Education Gender Gap”, with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan (September 2009)

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This paper develops and implements a semiparametric estimator for investigating, with panel data, the importance of human capital accumulation, non-separable preferences of females and child care costs on females life-cycle fertility and labor supply behaviors. It presents a model in which the agents’ expectations are correlated with their future choices and provides a set of conditions under which statistical inferences are possible from a short panel.

Life-cycle Fertility Behavior and Human Capital Accumulations”, with Robert A. Miller and George-Levi Gayle (August 2009)

This paper explores the estimation of a class of lifecycle discrete choice intergenerational models. It proposes a new semiparametric estimation technique that circumvents the need for full solution of the dynamic programming problem. As is standard in this class of estimators, we show that it is consistent and

asymptotically normally distributed. We compare out estimator to a modifed version of the full solution maximum likelihood estimator in a Monte Carlo study.

Estimation of Intergenerational Lifecycle Discrete Choice Models, with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan (September 2009)