We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental
health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by …

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the
research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the
historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the …

This article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on
household expenditure on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of …

In this paper, we use 2008–2013 American Community Survey data to update and further
probe evidence on son preference in the USA. In light of the substantial increase in …

Sex ratio at birth remains highly skewed in many Asian countries because of son preference.
The ratio in South Korea, however, declined beginning in 1990 and reached the natural …

We investigate whether paying fathers to stay at home with their newborn child affects
marital stability. Our empirical analysis is based on a reform in Iceland that offered one …

A large body of literature documents positive effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes, and separately …

In this article, Melanie Wasserman reviews the latest evidence about the causal link
between family structure and children's economic and social outcomes. Going beyond the …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised
concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage …