Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … association between maternal and paternal overweight and that of their offspring by gender, alongside the combined parental effect …. We aim at identifying the existence and the magnitude of a gender-assortative transmission of overweight after …

In several empirical contributions researchers have found a gender gap in preferences for public spending. This paper … analyzes the persistence of these gender gaps when income differences between individuals are taken into consideration. Using … survey data from the years 1996 and 2006 of German respondents, we show that gender gaps in preferences vanish when we …

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …