variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls … would have been 2 percent higher absent the crisis and that birth outcomes for girls were no better than those for boys …, findings that differ from the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. This relative disadvantage of girls is more severe among newborns who …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … with higher health risks …

for girls than boys, a magnitude considered as very large.When this difference is controlled for, the gender gap in …Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they cannot explain on their own the … strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is however no longer true once gender …

levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of … parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should … earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other covariates that capture alternative explanations for gender role …

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of … parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should … earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other covariates that capture alternative explanations for gender role …

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their … mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with … previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in … children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …