preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …