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 … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with … of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children, suggesting a stronger transmission of …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment — sibling gender composition — affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with … of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children, suggesting a stronger transmission of …

-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 …-sectional data. The study finds it for fathers and mothers, babies in the womb and recently born children, and for a West European …