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Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa - 2020

Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we show, using data from a purposefully designed...

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Racial difference in child penalty

Li, Jiaqi - 2021

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Migration Restrictions Can Create Gender Inequality : The Story of China's Left-Behind Children

Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children …'s access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression … is larger when the daughter has a male sibling. Migrant parents send significantly less remittances back to daughters …

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Long-term effects of recession on parenthood gender inequality

Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023

conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method …

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Gender preference at birth : a new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of …

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Restrictions on migration create gender inequality : the story of China's left-behind children

Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2022

) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children's access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million … children are left behind in rural areas. We use a regression-discontinuity design based on school enrollment age cutoffs to … daughter has a male sibling. Migrant parents send significantly less remittances back to daughters than sons. Migrants from …

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Gender inequality in childcare and parental mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany : do gender role attitudes matter?

Hiekel, Nicole; Kühn, Mine - 2023

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Socioemotional skills in early childhood : evidence from a maternal psychosocial intervention

Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023

analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …

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Do fathers have son preference in the United States? : evidence from paternal subjective well-being

Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2022

Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being. A wide range of subjective well-being measures,...

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Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? : Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

Cassidy, Rachel; Dam, Anaya; Janssens, Wendy; Kiani, Umair - 2022

Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are … edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and …

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