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

left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …

worsens the relative health and mortality outcomes for children in firstborn female families. Second, we examine if the gender …

, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries … the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … relative to men. In the U.S., we document that close to two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by …

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 …