This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation … - even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …

mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we … find that a mother's participation in the labor force increases her children's time spent in school and leads to better …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

In this paper, I offer a theoretical explanation of the robust gender differences in educational achievement … distributions of school children. I consider a shot cheap talk game with two different types of senders (biased teachers and fair …

performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …