Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained …

aversion. An accompanying laboratory experiment confirms that an exogenous increase in income risk causally leads to this …

We construct and estimate a model of child development in which both the parents and children make investments in the … heterogeneity in preferences both for parents and children, and in monitoring costs. Like their parents, children are forward … looking, but we allow children and parents to have different preferences and for children to have age-varying discount rates …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

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 …

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 …