Differential Fecundity and Gender-Biased Parental Investments in Health

Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. In monogamous societies with divorce and remarriage, fecund women are relatively scarce. This paper studies how parents, who maximize discounted dynastic consumption, invest in the survival of their sons and daughters. The theory also generates endogenous sex ratios, income class sizes, and population growth. (Copyright: Elsevier)

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Siow, Aloysius ; Zhu, Xiaodong
Published in:	Review of Economic Dynamics. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED. - Vol. 5.2002, 4, p. 999-1024
Publisher:	Society for Economic Dynamics - SED
Subject:	Gender bias \| parental investment \| health \| population growth

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Notes:	Published
Other identifiers:	10.1006/redy.2002.0196 [DOI]
Classification:	J1 - Demographic Economics ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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