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

- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …

-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its …

" – significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …