This study aims to shed a light on children’s pragmatic development by examining Mandarin-speaking requests in interactions with their parents. It is found that children between 24 and 36 months old appear use various request forms, primarily simple imperatives WANT statements. A closer examination reveals prefer activity-based while both primary forms are unstructured daily conversations. The ...

We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the labor-market return, resulting from higher wages and a marriagemarket return, defined as the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract. Men and women may have different incentives to invest in schooling because of different market wages or household roles. This asymmetry can yield a mi...

....................................................................................................v CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION...........................................................................1 Social Changes and Their Impacts on Gender Relations – A Case of the United States........3 Changes in Work and Family........................................................................3 Dem...