marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun …

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World … sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In …