I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women … of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children, suggesting a stronger transmission of …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment — sibling gender composition — affects women … of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children, suggesting a stronger transmission of …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, are shown to be almost … twice as risk-averse as parents of sons. The study demonstrates this in longitudinal ('switching') data and cross …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …