first child's sex are larger for those who have relatively weak son preference than for those who have relatively strong son …

national representative sample of Peruvian women in the Demographic and Health Survey, we find that if the first child is a … the first child are stronger for women with only one child than for women with multiple children and that the effects of …

Previous studies usually use child gender-related variables as instruments for fertility choices in households. However … if the child gender directly affect the outcome variable other than changing the number of children, the exclusion … China's One Child Policy. Applying to the children's effects on parental migration decision, we find that the addition of …

This paper documents some distinct and surprising patterns of specialization among new parents in the NLSY79. Child … daughters across education groups include a bias towards same-sex parental inputs as desired child quality increases and child … suggest gender differences in child production functions. -- child gender ; parenthood ; labor supply ; time allocation …

health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the …

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …