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Sibling size and investment in children's education : an Asian instrument

Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …

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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

Halla, Martin - 2015

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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Twin birth and maternal condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

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Son targeting fertility behavior in Albania

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022

The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is well-known, little is known about other forms taken by revealed son preference, such as...

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...

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Teenage daughters as a cause of divorce

Kabátek, Jan; Ribar, David C. - 2017

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

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Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents in Soviet-era Russia

Schief, Matthias; Vogt, Sonja; Churilova, Elena; … - 2023

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

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Unintended consequences of family planning policies on the breastfeeding gap between sons and daughters

Chae, Minhee; Cai, Yong; Kim, Jun Hyung; Lavely, William R. - 2023

We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...

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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … through which conflict influences fertility. First, the type of violence exposure as measured by the death of a woman's child …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …

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