against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find …A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been …

for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm … the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly …

for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are …, women or both, with the same intervention in the same context - how their information and beliefs about private and social … boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …