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 …

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 …

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

This paper examines race and police use of force using data on 1.6 million 911 calls in two
cities, neither of which allows for discretion in officer dispatch. Results indicate White officers …

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 …

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 …

Using difference‐in‐difference and difference‐in‐difference‐in‐difference designs, we study
California's Paid Family Leave (CA‐PFL) program, the first source of government‐provided …

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 …