monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

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 …

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 …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to … skills after childbirth for both parents between 0.13 (short-run) and 0.16 standard deviations (long-run), but no …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …