We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of … parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should … earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other covariates that capture alternative explanations for gender role …