mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …

increased excess female infant mortality and son-biased fertility stopping. This suggests that the inheritance reform raised the … costs of having daughters, consistent with which we document an increase in stated son preference in fertility post …

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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the … of approximately 11 million missing women in China, and contributed to more than 50% of its outstanding gender imbalance …