Reviews of the literature reveal that empirical work on gender and CEO successions in
family firms is still rare. Building on a unique data set of CEO successions, we investigate …

Using data from the “Monitoring the Future” surveys, this paper shows that from the 1980s to
the 2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shifted from “B” to “A,” …

Many empirical applications of regression discontinuity (RD) models use a running variable
that is rounded and hence discrete, eg age in years, or birth weight in ounces. This paper …

Sex ratio at birth remains highly skewed in Asian countries due to son preference. In South
Korea, however, it has declined to the natural ratio. In this paper, we investigate whether son …

Using birth records in Japan, where school entry rule is strictly enforced, this paper shows
that more than 1,800 births a year are shifted from one week before the school entry cutoff …

Using a longitudinal sample of 4,010 mothers and fathers from the Fragile Families and
Child Wellbeing Study, we examine factors that predict whether children are living with both …

Does when a child was born relative to his or her siblings affect whether the child attends
school or participates in child labour? We investigate this question by estimating the causal …

This paper analyzes the connection between two concurrent trends since 1950: the
narrowing and reversal of the educational gender gap and the increased labor force …

This paper studies the relationship between single motherhood and children's height-for-
age z-scores in Brazil. In order to isolate the causal effect between family structure and …

Conventional wisdom arguably suggests that parenting is satisfying for parents: individuals
in early to mid-adulthood often claim to look forward to entering parenthood and having …