Previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural
India. However estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments could be biased if …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium-and long-term impacts of Head Start on
health and behavioral problems. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the …

Prenatal exposure to the disruptions caused by the Korean War (1950–1953) negatively
affected the individual socioeconomic and health outcomes at older ages. The educational …

Strong boy-bias and its consequences for young and unborn girls have been widely
documented for Asia. This paper considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that …

This paper evaluates a school reform in Bavaria that moved the timing of tracking in low-and
middle-track schools from grade 6 to grade 4; students in high-track schools were not …

In this paper, I estimate the causal effect that an additional year of schooling for parents has
on their children's education, by exploiting a compulsory schooling reform that was …

This paper uses a new dataset on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of
potential adoptive parents over US-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We …

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the
likelihood that young people engage in delinquent behavior. We pay particular attention to …

Urban Indian households with a male first child are approximately 2 percentage points more
likely to use clean cooking fuel than comparable households with a female first child. Given …

Provocative studies have reported that in the United States, marriages producing firstborn
daughters are more likely to divorce than those producing firstborn sons. The findings have …