-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …-sectional data. The study finds it for fathers and mothers, babies in the womb and recently born children, and for a West European …

We study the correlation of choice under risk in Holt-Laury lotteries for gains and losses with gender, the use of … preferences and the digit ratio are observed in either gender and/or race. Females who use hormonal contraceptives are more likely …

How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World … War II on the sex ratio, as a quasi-natural experiment, we establish empirically that the decrease in the male to female …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World … War II on the sex ratio, as a quasi-natural experiment, we establish empirically that the decrease in the male to female …

, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …

indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …

a framed field experiment with 883 non-standard subjects, we show that none of the determinants of competitive behavior …'s substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …