In the United States, parents prefer a child of each gender, and on many dimensions parents
tend to treat sons and daughters similarly. However, fathers' investments appear to be …

Evolutionary theory and empirical studies suggest that many animals, including humans,
have a genetic predisposition to acquire and retain property. This is hardly surprising …

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

In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David J. Barker
posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease and type …

Start Analyzing a Wide Range of Problems Since the publication of the bestselling, highly
recommended first edition, R has considerably expanded both in popularity and in the …

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 …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the
gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across …

In the third edition of her popular text, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Diane Halpern
tackles fundamental questions about the meaning of sex differences in cognition and why …

This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate the impact of family
characteristics in corporate decision making and the consequences of these decisions on …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner
violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, from 2005 to 2016 …