to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged … (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether son preference is associated with girls bearing a larger burden of …

This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and … between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and brother correlations. All approaches suggest that social mobility increased … after WWII, while brother correlations continued to decline. The relationship between fathers' and sons' income percentile …

matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average … distribution) that they maintain into adulthood. The high dropout rate of boys from secondary education explains why fewer people … encourage girls to excel. …