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Prenatal conditions and midlife mental health : evidence from an alcohol policy experiment

Linnros, Evelina; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2026

We estimate the long-term mental health impact of an alcohol policy experiment on individuals exposed to the policy in utero. The policy lasted for 8.5 months and significantly expanded access to alcohol, especially for those under age 21. Armed with administrative data on healthcare visits,...

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Prenatal conditions and midlife mental health : evidence from an alcohol policy experiment

Linnros, Evelina; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2026

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Freed from the boys : how single-sex schooling shapes girls' effort and performance in high-stakes exams

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Fawaz, Yarine; Fernández-Kranz, … - 2025

Prior research has found that boys often outperform girls in high-stakes math exams, raising the question of whether these gender differences under pressure stem from nature or nurture. This relative female disadvantage can influence access to selective university programs and subsequent career...

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Girls' schooling is important but insufficient to promote equality for boys and girls in childhood and across the life course

Desmond, Chris; Watt, Kathryn; Naicker, Sara N.; … - 2024

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The role of female education expansion in declining youth crime rates

Andersen, Lars Højsgaard; Nielsen, Mikkeline M. - 2024

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Son preference and education Inequalities in India : the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys

Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika - 2023

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Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls

Lee, Susie; Semenchenko, Hanna - 2023

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Headstrong girls and dependent boys : gender differences in the labor market returns to child behavior

Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - 2023

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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior

Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - 2021

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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior

Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - 2023

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More Girls, Fewer Blues : Peer Gender Ratios and Adolescent Mental Health

Deza, Monica; Zhu, Maria - 2025

Using individual-level data from the Add Health surveys, we leverage idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within the same school to examine whether being exposed to a higher share of female peers affects mental health and school satisfaction. We find that being exposed to...

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Educational expansion and attitudes toward son preference in China

Zhang, Jie; Meng, Chenyu - 2025

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Exploring the gender gap in noncognitive abilities : the role of parental investment in preschool girls' outperformance over boys in China

Liang, Wenyan; He, Qian; Li, Minyi; Wang, Shiqi - 2025

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Are Girls Mentally Healthier Without Boys Around? Mental Health Outcomes of Single-Sex Schooling

Kim, Young‐Chul; Kim, Seul-Ki - 2022

This study investigates the effects of single-sex schooling on students’ mental health, focusing on feeling blue, happiness, and suicidal ideation. Employing a national-level large-scale dataset regarding middle school students in South Korea, we found significant positive effects of...

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The Brother's Penalty : Boy Preference and Girls' Health in China

Ye, Yuli; Li, Qiang; He, Qinying; An, Lian - 2022

We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we find that the presence of...

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Intentions for a third child : the role of parental sex composition preferences

Mishra, Ankita; Parasnis, Jaai - 2022

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Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?

Card, David E.; Chyn, Eric; Giuliano, Laura - 2024

Boys are less likely than girls to enter college, a gap that is often attributed to a lack of non-cognitive skills such as motivation and self-discipline. We study how being classified as gifted - determined by having an IQ score of 116 or higher - affects college entry rates of disadvantaged...

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Beyond human capital : how does parents' direct influence on their sons’ earnings vary across eight OECD countries?

Bonomi Bezzo, Franco; Raitano, Michele; Vanhuysse, Pieter - 2024

This article asks to what degree the association between parents’ education and sons’ earnings is mediated by various forms of sons’ human capital across eight large OECD countries. We exploit the OECD Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) database, which...

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Differential effects of parental psychological control on boys' versus girls' smoking development

Yang, Zhiyong - 2024

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"The school was closed, so when they brought me a husband I couldn't say no" : exploring the gendered experiences of child marriage amongst adolescent girls and boys in Ethiopia

Guday Emirie; Jones, Nicola; Kebede, Meti - 2021

Child marriage is increasingly recognised as a development priority given its far-reaching life-course and inter-generational consequences. Despite rapid progress, Ethiopia remains in the top five countries globally in terms of absolute numbers of married girls, with significant sub-national...

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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement

Chen, Stacey; Chen, Yen‐Chien; Liu, Jin-tan - 2021

Parents preferring sons tend to have more children until a boy is born and concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a brother may affect a child's education in two ways: an indirect effect by keeping sibsize lower and a direct rivalry effect where...

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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement

Chen, Stacey - 2016

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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement

Chen, Stacey H. - 2014

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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage.

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

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Have a son, gain a voice : son preference and female participation in household decision making

Javed, Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2019

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Have a Son, Gain a Voice : Son Preference and Female Participation in Household Decision Making

Javed, Rashid - 2020

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Have a son, gain a voice : son preference and female participation in household decision making

Javed, Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2018

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Parents' absence harms norm obedience of girls more than boys

Wang, Jianxin; Yuan, Caiyun; Zhang, Qian; Houser, Daniel - 2023

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Girls, boys, and high achievers

Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019

This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of...

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Girls, boys, and high achievers

Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019

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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Cools, Angela - 2019

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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Cools, Angela - 2019

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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Cools, Angela - 2019

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The labor supply consequences of having a boy in China

Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019

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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China

Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019

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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China

Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019

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Effects of maternal work incentives on adolescent social behaviors

Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2019

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and focus on behaviors that are important for socioeconomic...

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Child-specific son preference, birth order and cognitive skills in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019

We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...

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Um drengi og stúlkur í íslenska menntakerfinu

Gísli Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2019

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Viet Nam : country profile : global programme to prevent son preference and the undervaluing of girls : improving the sex ratio at birth in select countries in Asia and the Caucasus

2019

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Son preferences and education inequalities in India

Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika - 2019

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Um drengi og stúlkur í íslenska menntakerfinu

2019

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Son Preference and Human Capital

Wang, Qingfeng - 2019

We have developed a theoretical link between the existence of a son preference and the quantity and quality of children. In our model, decisions about the quantity and quality of children are interdependent and are influenced by a son preference. A son preference substantially widens the gap...

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Spillover effects of girls' empowerment on brothers' competitiveness : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda

Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; Leonard, Kenneth … - 2022

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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature

Corman, Hope - 2018

Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...

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"Under-performing" or resilient Filipino boys in education? : listening to students' and adults' perspectives and backgrounds : a Western Visayas case

Okabe, Masayoshi - 2018

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Why Do Indonesian Adolescent Boys Have Poorer Schooling Outcomes than Girls?

Muller, Noel; Perova, Elizaveta - 2018

Indonesian secondary students perform worse academically than their peers in other countries, especially boys. In the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, Indonesia ranked among the worse of the 72 participating countries. More than half of 15-year-olds could read a...

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Does Quebec's subsidized child care policy give boys and girls an equal start?

Kottelenberg, Michael J.; Lehrer, Steven F. - 2017

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Does Quebec's Subsidized Child Care Policy Give Boys and Girls an Equal Start?

Kottelenberg, Michael J. - 2017

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Does Quebec's Subsidized Child Care Policy Give Boys and Girls an Equal Start?

Kottelenberg, Michael - 2017

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Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; Ziff, Anna - 2017

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Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; Ziff, Anna - 2017

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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society

Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2017

It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...

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Making up People : The Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society

Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2012

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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2021

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The effect of single-sex education on academic outcomes and crime : fresh evidence from low-performing schools in Trinidad and Tobago

Jackson, Clement - 2016

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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

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The Evolution of Social Mobility : Norway Over the 20th Century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2016

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The Evolution of Social Mobility : Norway Over the 20th Century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2016

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The price of gold : dowry and death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2020

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The price of gold : dowry and death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2018

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The price of gold : dowry and death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2016

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The price of gold : dowry and death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2018

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Son preference and gender gaps in child nutrition : does the level of female autonomy matter?

Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2016

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Son preference and gender gaps in child nutrition : does the level of female autonomy matter?

Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2012

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Son Preference and Gender Gaps in Child Nutrition : Does the Level of Female Autonomy Matter?

Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2016

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The impact of microcredit loans on school enrolment in Bangladesh

Kandulu, John; Wheeler, Sarah; Zuo, Alec; Sim, Nicholas - 2020

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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2016

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...

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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015

Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by...

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