We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …

relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …