the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings … significantly contributes to the gender pay gap. Lastly, we show that women experience a greater decline in earnings if their … for individuals who experience parental death and emphasize the role of informal care in contributing to gender pay …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries … the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … relative to men. In the U.S., we document that close to two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by …

left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …

find that there has been no erosion of the gender gap in the tendency to sort into occupations with the highest share of …

, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …