Barcellos, Silvia H.; Carvalho, Leandro; Lleras-Muney, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments are likely to be biased because girls systematically end up in larger families. We propose a...