This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

; neighbourhood histories ; sequence analysis ; Sweden …

absence and mental health, obtained through rich registry data. Our results show that gender does not significantly explain …

transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003, following which the share of twin births showed a precipitous drop of 70 …

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …

This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the …

; biased testing ; gender …