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Inferring "missing girls" from child sex ratios in European historical census data : a conservative approach
Beltrán Tapia, Francisco; Szołtysek, Mikołaj; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482982
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Life and death under son preference : economic stress, fertility and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800-1910
Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; … - 2023
Relying on longitudinal micro data from 13 Spanish rural villages between 1800 and 1910, this paper assesses whether discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area with a strong preference for sons. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429259
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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Exploiting the temporal and spatial variations in economic hardship across provinces, we show that the deep economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537794
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. We do this through … children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We … show that better female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533051
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100
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Son preference, gender discrimination and missing girls in rural Span, 1750-1950
Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; Beltrán Tapia, Francisco J. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304030
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Gene‐Environment Effects on Female Fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000567
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Gene-environment effects on female fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628750