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

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type …. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented among those lifted from poverty by the CTC …, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By 2017, disparities by family type mostly disappear, as eligibility and anti-poverty …

parents invest more in young boys than girls, or that women's status increases with the birth of a son. Earlier male births … reduce women's midlife employment but do not appear to affect say in household resource allocation. Women in their forties …

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

, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …