more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field …

Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill …

causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … sons/daughters-in-law are not affected. We show important long-run impacts on maternal labor supply and on the child …We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …

We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care … to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with … large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast …