Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better … samples, we find that parents with greater risk aversion before the birth of their children are more likely to have sons … through sex selection than parents with less risk aversion. Additionally, having sons significantly decreases parental risk …