Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental...

Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments are likely to be biased because girls systematically end up in larger families. We propose a...

We use data from The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to estimate effects of adolescent girls' overweight on their propensity to engage in risky sexual behavior. We estimate single equation, two-stage, and sibling fixed-effects models and find that overweight or obese teenage...

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...

"Zwischen 1977 und 1984 hat sich die Zahl der Mädchen, die im dualen System für einen "Männerberuf" ausgebildet werden, von 13 000 auf 59 000 erhöht. Der Anteil der Mädchen an allen Auszubildenden, die einen "Männerberuf" erlernen, ist in diesem Zeitraum von 2% auf 6% gestiegen. Dennoch...