hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience … that are predicted by a higher number of children. The results are robust to controlling for age, education, income …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … communities and especially the Muslim deficit in parental education predict a Hindu advantage. Alternative outcomes and …

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

for individual wealth, education, and political participation, low caste individuals exhibit a much lower willingness to …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …