The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...

We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we find that the presence of...

This study investigates the effects of single-sex schooling on students’ mental health, focusing on feeling blue, happiness, and suicidal ideation. Employing a national-level large-scale dataset regarding middle school students in South Korea, we found significant positive effects of...

Boys are less likely than girls to enter college, a gap that is often attributed to a lack of non-cognitive skills such as motivation and self-discipline. We study how being classified as gifted - determined by having an IQ score of 116 or higher - affects college entry rates of disadvantaged...