The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …

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

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children’s non … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 ….43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …