*What explains the gender gap in academic careers? This paper studies the role of geographic mobility in shaping gender disparities. I use new administrative data from France linking the universe of PhD graduates to application and hiring outcomes in public universities. First, I show that women submit fewer applications, over shorter distances, and are more locally concentrated than men. Second, I exploit exogenous variation in the spatial distribution of job openings across disciplines to estimate the causal effect of mobility on hiring. I find that reduced mobility lowers both the number of applications and the probability of securing a position. Overall, these results suggest that geographic mobility constraints are a key mechanism behind persistent gender inequality in academia.

**Parental beliefs, especially expectations about the returns to early childhood investments, are a key determinant of how families allocate time and resources to their children. This paper investigates how those beliefs update over time in response to (i) a parenting information intervention, (ii) a labeled, unconditional cash transfer (UCT), or (iii) their combination. We exploit the Kizazi Kijacho RCT’s unique gender-targeting to study how both mothers’ and fathers’ beliefs change depending on who receives the labeled transfer, leveraging randomized assignment and repeated belief elicitations at the child’s age-1 and age-2 follow-ups to capture short- and medium-run dynamics. We also examine heterogeneity by baseline parental characteristics (e.g., education, resources, prior beliefs) and explore belief-to-behavior links by relating belief updates to measured parenting investments and early child outcomes.