answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

While there is a large literature on gender differences in important childhood developmental inputs in developing … countries, the evidence for developed countries is relatively limited. I investigate gender differences in some of these inputs …

over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across … number of adopted children and have a disproportionate effect on African-American ones …

Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 … explains a small but significant portion of the rising gender gaps in high school graduation and college completion. Increases …-income children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …

An estimated 20 million children born each year are at risk of brain damage from in utero iodine deficiency, the only … improvements in cognitive ability attributable to the intervention by assessing whether children who benefited from IOC in utero … exhibit higher rates of grade progression at ages 10 to 14 relative to siblings and older and younger children in the district …

likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but …-five children in Turkey. I find gains in health and human capital among age-eligible children of both sexes. However, educational … mother works outside the home and in the number of young children in the household, and are absent if an elder sister is …

children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … labor market affects children. Specifically, we find evidence that improvements in labor market conditions facing women are …

gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …