behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional … distribution where the gender gaps are most pronounced. Accounting for the disproportionate effects of family environment on boys … at the tails substantially narrows the gender gap in high school dropout …

ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … less-skilled men, they experienced deteriorating returns to education but, unlike the men, they benefited from a growing …, while the returns to experience have declined among less-skilled men. The negative effect of children and marital status on …

fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal …

steady increase in the surplus of men relative to women. We construct an OLG model with two sexes and a desire to marry. We … show conditions under which an intensified competition in the marriage market can induce men to raise their savings rate …