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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. This was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277862
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621799
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805049
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403392
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Family Structure Transitions and Changes in Maternal Resources and Well-Being
Osborne, Cynthia; Berger, Lawrence; Magnuson, Katherine - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010
This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to examine whether family instability is associated with changes in perceived social support, material hardship, maternal depression, and parenting stress among mothers of young children. In addition to accounting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149784
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Childhood family structure and young adult behaviors
Yeung, Wei-Jun J.; Duncan, Greg J.; Hill, Martha S. - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 271-299
This paper examines a wide variety of forms, and full histories, of family structure to test existing theories of family influences and identify needs for new theories. The focus is on links between childhood family structure and both completed schooling and risk of a nonmarital birth. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395915
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The economics of marriage
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011
In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer when the children will no longer be economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011220520
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Missing Daughters, Missing Brides?
Hippolyte D’ALBIS; CROIX, David DE LA - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
at marriage, fertility rate, and mean age at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540105
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Mommies’ Girls Get Dresses, Daddies’ Boys Get Toys. Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401716
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Mommies’ Girls Get Dresses, Daddies’ Boys Get Toys. Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401719