Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017
, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse parents have a stronger preference for sons than for daughters …. Second, after the birth of their children, parents with sons are more risk seeking, compared to parents with daughters. We … samples, we find that parents with greater risk aversion before the birth of their children are more likely to have sons …
