This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … climb the job ladder with focus on the effect of children. We attempt to disentangle whether children directly affect … promotions, or whether the effect of children is correlated with effort. We find that the probability to progress on the career …

Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re- luctance to choose technical occupations …. Possible explanations are the lack of self-confidence of girls in male-dominated subjects, the domi- nating behavior of boys in … the classroom and unequal treatment by teachers. In this paper, we identify the causal impact of gender composition in …

This paper presents evidence that increased earnings opportunities for girls can lower household preference for sons …, as measured by the household's average reported ideal number of sons relative to ideal number of children. Using the 1995 … girls increase to about 20 to 25 rupees per day. Anthropometric outcomes for girls, measured using weight-for-height z …