born children and in families with fewer sons. We then study the son preference-specific girl-penalty in early cognitive … and non-cognitive skills. Son preferences have adverse effects on cognitive and language skills of two-year-old girls at …

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an … strongest when both children are daughters. However, the son-preference culture emphasized in certain regions negatively offsets …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …