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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

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Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children's Quality

Baez, Javier - 2021

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores

Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

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Girls and boys : economic crisis, fertility, and birth outcomes

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2018

We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...

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Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2017

This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...

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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018

possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …

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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...

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Parental gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe and differential early life disadvantages

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika; Wowczko, Izabela - In: Economics of transition and institutional change 32 (2024) 1, pp. 237-263

the effect of the gender of the first-born child(ren) on fertility decisions and relationship stability of their parents …. We only find strong evidence of ‘boy preferences’ in fertility decisions in the cases of Romania and Russia. However …

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Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany

Lersch, Philipp M.; Grabka, Markus M.; Rüß, Kilian; … - In: Journal of European Social Policy 31 (2021) 5, pp. 565-579

research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …

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Birth order matters : the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Kee, Hiau Joo (contributor) - 2005

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …

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