Thursday, June 26 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM   •   Lecture Room 324

Session 6:
Investing in the quality of children

Chair: Anne H. Gauthier, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

  1. A cohort perspective of youth poverty in the United States • Daria Mendola, Università degli Studi di Palermo ; Maria Sironi, University of Oxford ; Arnstein Aassve, Università Bocconi

  2. How do students make educational choices? The influence of gender stereotypes about abilities • Claire Thibout, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne ; Benoît Rapoport, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

  3. On the role of female health for economic development • Michael Kuhn, Vienna Institute of Demography ; David E. Bloom, Harvard University ; Klaus Prettner, University of Göttingen

  4. Intra-household gender discrimination in school choice: evidence from private schooling in India • Soham Sahoo, Indian Statistical Institute

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