Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …. Parental nonfinancial inputs, unwanted girls, and patrilineal states are important for explaining the findings. …

deals with gender equality. The findings of the study highlight the close links present between child marriage, poverty and …

We study the relationship between media attention and major choices by evaluating how newspaper reports on violence … above-median test scores are more responsive to media attention. Consequently, it significantly reduces the quality of …

gender that favor men, by marital status and gender that favor married men over married women, and by gender, marital, and … forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …

change the gender gaps in the intergenerational transmission. Our results are robust to different model specifications and …

This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers …, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence. …

/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …