Zahlreichen Frauen gelingt es mittlerweile auch mit Kindern erfolgreich eine Führungsposition auszuüben. Viele andere Managerinnen verzichten zugunsten der Karriere auf eine Familiengründung. Dennoch nehmen Personalverantwortliche bei der Bewertung einer Bewerberin oftmals einen "Abschlag"...

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the number of unhealthy fetuses that are carried to term. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding...

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the number of unhealthy fetuses that are carried to term. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding...

Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the effect of prenatal temperature exposure on birth sex by linking data on 5 million births in 33 sub-Saharan African countries and India with high-resolution temperature data. We find...