, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship … nonlinear and peaks at 3-4 years of childcare attendance. Examination of gender heterogeneity patterns reveals differences in …

gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …

Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … representative sample of English children and their parents for the period 1996-2009. We examine the magnitude and change of the … association between maternal and paternal overweight and that of their offspring by gender, alongside the combined parental effect …

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 …

This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …

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 … more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …