In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … division of parental leave of biological parents (where the mother gave birth) to adoptive parents (where she did not), to …, and families that had both adopted and biological children. We find that the mother's share of parental leave is lower if …

, we find that parents invest more in daughters than sons at ages 3-5. Moreover, parents’ beliefs about their children …Parental investments at early ages can shape children’s future educational specializations. Using a longitudinal study …’s reading and math abilities are higher for girls than boys. We examine how these behaviors and beliefs predict children …

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 …

prevalent among children is scarce in the literature. Using primary data from a household survey in four Indian states, we … with larger family sizes, there is also evidence of the interplay between family size and gender composition of children …

incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as … sons with children or childless offspring. Data on the distance between the children's location and the parents' location …

incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as … sons with children or childless offspring. Data on the distance between the children's location and the parents' location …