The "tigers" are a group of 4-5 east Asian countries, which have joined the rich western countries after a period of 30-40 years of "miraculous" growth. Large controversies surround the attempt to explain how they did it. The paper briefly surveys the discussion. The economic freedom index...

Parents preferring sons tend to have more children until a boy is born and concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a brother may affect a child's education in two ways: an indirect effect by keeping sibsize lower and a direct rivalry effect where...

We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test whether mating competition is a major motive for entrepreneurship. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Initially, the soldiers were...

This study explores the change of married women’s sex preference for children in Taiwan since 1990, finding that there was a substantial decline of son preference and rise of “gender indifferenceâ€, defined as feeling indifferent about children’s sex (as opposed to...