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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …
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We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …
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We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the … uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a differences-in-differences setup to first estimate that the children from … play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …
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