mainly protect the victims of human trafficking, i.e. predominantly women. The conclusions are consistent with other …

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …, in the spirit of traditional difference-in-differences, the first difference pertaining to the differences in children …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

-income households. The short-run effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills are mixed, but negative for girls. Spillover effects on …

How do electoral rules affect the representation of women? We collect panel data on the universe of Italian politicians … electoral rules favour the election of women. We propose a new channel through which this result is obtained, related to the … different nature of political competition in the two electoral systems: under proportional rules, parties place women less …

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …. Moreover, we find that women tend more towards giving half the endowment while men tend more towards “all or nothing.” The …