more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field …

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children … for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children … for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within province, village level variation in gender attitudes confirm the …

ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions … the threshold. To investigate the role of gender norms, we compare the effect of economic incentives among older, more … traditional families and younger families. Our results indicate that both gender norms and economic incentives affect parental …

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … division of parental leave of biological parents (where the mother gave birth) to adoptive parents (where she did not), to …, and families that had both adopted and biological children. We find that the mother's share of parental leave is lower if …