In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …

and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

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 … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … young children (aged 0–5 years), the number of coal units in the district in the month and year of birth significantly … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …