to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households …Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether son preference is associated with girls bearing a larger burden of …

This paper presents micro-econometric evidence on peer effects in adolescent smoking between classmates aged 15 …/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification … consistent with endogenous sorting into schools. When fixed effects are included, estimated peer effects range from 0.04 to 0 …

This paper compares two functionally different approaches to analyzing standardized test data: least-squares based …

in explaining first-born boys' education levels. In contrast, both effects for first-born girls are evident but go in …Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate … investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by …