suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … welfare and gender gaps. For a sample of 70 countries observed at five year intervals from 1965 to 1980, tariff, quota, and … to increased gender equality. …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … explain developmental gaps in children's non-cognitive skills. Our measure for children's non-cognitive skills is their … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

understates the total impact on the second generation’s accumulation of human capital. Our estimation results are generally robust … to IV estimation. …

Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these …

Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully … suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of …

effect of education on health, depending on gender. …