sons over daughters, differential costs, role models or complementary costs, but is consistent with a theory of parity … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

rates to: (1) the fathers’ preferences for sons; or (2) the differential needs of boys and girls. The results suggest both … theories have merit. First, fathers of newborn sons report greater marital happiness, but mothers do not. This supports the … “demand for sons” hypothesis. Second, analysis of divorce rates provides evidence for both causal theories. In particular, I …

potential target groups for a project to implement nonformal educational programmes for women. …

children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children … analysis. First, the authors estimate the correlation between the female's education and her number of children, and then the … authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

relate all these aspects to the function of the family in violating the democratic rights of women. …. position of women; 3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic development by the State and their consequent … marginalization and exploitation in the labour force; 4. the perpetuation of the notion of the family as a private area governed by …