across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides … in areas with a more severe shortage of young women, the parents with unmarried sons suffer a significantly higher …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … participation and investment in girls, two significant problems are the possibility of omitted variables bias and reverse causality …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

The literature on "missing girls" suggests a net preference for sons both in China and among Chinese immigrants to the … West. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that newborn Chinese-American girls are treated more intensively in US hospitals: they … responding to worse health at birth of Chinese-American girls. We document higher rates of low birth weight, congenital anomalies …