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We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...
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Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on … relevant economic outcomes, focusing on gender differences. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German … in SED impact behavior, however, we find stark differences by gender, observing important changes in externalizing …
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We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on … relevant economic outcomes, focusing on gender differences. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German … in SED impact behavior, however, we find stark differences by gender, observing important changes in externalizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240562
market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …
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How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and …
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left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
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