Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower
achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable …

In this paper, we examine whether gender inequality affects a household's decision to adopt
green consumption behaviour in China. Building upon the literature that claims women tend …

This article presents new evidence on the crime‐reducing impacts of a high‐quality,
intensive early childhood program with long‐term follow‐up, evaluated by a randomized …

Females live a lot longer than males in most parts of the world today. But that was not always
the case. We ask when and why the female advantage emerged. We show that reductions in …

Gender inequality starts early in life. Parents tend to prefer boys over girls, which is
manifested in reproductive behavior, marital life, and parents' pastimes and investments in …

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of
early childcare on children cognitive and non-cognitive development in the short and …

Parents preferring sons tend to go on having more children until a boy is born and to
concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a …

This paper analyzes the role of family structure in the gender gap in children's time
investment in studying and non-cognitive skills. We focus on Italy, a country that, similar to …

Abstract Using Chinese Household Income Project survey data from 2013, this paper
investigates the effects of family size and birth order on children's educational attainment …

We study the effect of parenting daughters on attitudes towards gender norms in the UK;
specifically, attitudes towards the traditional male breadwinner norm in which it is the …