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Family Influences on Family Size Preferences
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1994
...William G. Axinn; Marin E. Clarkberg; Arland Thornton Abstract Several studies have demonstrated important effects of parents’ childbearing behavior on their children’s childbearing preferences and behavior. The study described here advances our understanding of these family influences by expanding...
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Sharing the Load: How Do Coresident Children Influence the Allocation of Work and Schooling in Northwestern Tanzania?
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1931–1956.
Published: 09 September 2019
...Sophie Hedges; David W. Lawson; Jim Todd; Mark Urassa; Rebecca Sear Abstract Economic and evolutionary models of parental investment often predict education biases toward earlier-born children, resulting from either household resource dilution or parental preference. Previous research, however, has...
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Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1641–1662.
Published: 03 August 2018
...Lutfunnahar Begum; Philip J. Grossman; Asadul Islam Abstract Parental bias toward children of a particular gender has been widely observed in many societies. Such bias could be due to pure gender preference or differences in earning opportunities and concern for old-age support. We conduct a high...
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Transition of Son Preference: Evidence From South Korea
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 627–652.
Published: 23 March 2020
..., evidence suggests the weakening of son preference in South Korea. On the other hand, when parents follow son-biased stopping rules, the direction of selection bias would depend on the relative fertility rate of son-biased and gender-neutral families. If son-biased parents stop having an additional child...
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Gendering family composition: Sex preferences for children and childbearing behavior in the Nordic countries
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 255–267.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Gunnar Andersson; Karsten Hank; Marit Rønsen; Andres Vikat Abstract It has been argued that a society’s gender system may influence parents’ sex preferences for children. If this is true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries with a high level of gender equality...
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The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest: Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 857–875.
Published: 01 June 2022
... ). Manacorda and Moretti (2006) found that Italian parents prefer to coreside with their children and, therefore, may reward them financially for staying in the parental home: a $500 increase in parental income is associated with a 3.5- to 3.9-percentage-point increase in the probability that adult children...
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Self-care: Why do parents leave their children unsupervised?
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Lynne M. Casper; Kristin E. Smith Abstract We used a preferences-and-constraints model to develop four hypotheses to explain why parents may choose self-care (an unsupervised arrangement) as the primary child care arrangement for their children over supervised alternatives and tested them...
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Selective gender differences in childhood nutrition and immunization in rural India: The role of siblings
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 August 2003
... , 194 – 210 . Williamson N.E. ( 1976 ). Sons or Daughters, A Cross-Cultural Survey of Parental Preferences . Beverly Hills, CA : Sage Publications .
Gender and Poverty in India . ( 1991 ). Washington, DC : The World Bank .
Immunization in Practice: A Guide for Health Workers Who...
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Naming the Precious Child: New Evidence of Intentional Family Planning in Historical Populations
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Joshua R. Goldstein; Guy Stecklov Abstract Can the names parents gave their children give us insights into how parents in historical times planned their families? In this study, we explore whether the names given to the firstborn child can be used as indicators of family-size preferences and, if so...
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Preference for Sons, Family Size, and Sex Ratio: An Empirical Study in Korea
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1983
... for sons, is observed. In many Asian countries with national family planning programs, son prefer- ence has been frequently cited as one of the major barriers to reducing fertility, for parents with daughters try to have more children in the hope of bearing the desired number of sons. It has been pointed...
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Son Preference and Fertility Decisions: Evidence From Spatiotemporal Variation in Korea
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
... skewed. To isolate the effects of the preference for sons from the effects of the surrounding environment, we compare the fertility behavior of individuals living in the same region but who were born in different regions or years. Exploiting the male-female gap in educational achievement at the parents...
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Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ratios at birth require that three distinct forces come together: (1) parents must have a preference for sons, (2) the technology for sex selection must be available, and (3) fertility must be low so that parents face a high risk of remaining without a son ( Guilmoto 2009 ). Differences in desired...
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In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1793–1815.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in Irish history to provide new insight into Irish fertility patterns. My analysis focuses on how fertility patterns relate to the signals revealed in the names that parents chose for their children. Using parents' distinctly Catholic naming preferences as a signal of religious behavior...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
Published: 08 May 2017
... of children, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child, which is plausibly random. Given a strong son preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the firstborn is a girl. Our instrumental variable results show that children from larger families have lower educational...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Preference</span> for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
... ), education may reduce preference for male children among expecting parents. For example, higher education could provide a greater sense of individual freedom from patriarchal cultures and encourage more cosmopolitan or egalitarian cultural attitudes ( Baker 2014 ; Echávarri and Ezcurra 2010 ; Weitzman 2018...
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View articletitled, Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher <span class="search-highlight">Parental</span> Education in the United States, 1969–2018
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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Jere R. Behrman 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Inequality Aversion Parental Preference Child Quality Parental Welfare Poor Proxy References Arrow , K. J. ( 1971 ). A utilitarian approach to the concept of equality in public expenditure...
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Research Note: Intergenerational Transmission Is Not Sufficient for Positive Long-Term Population Growth
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2003–2012.
Published: 01 December 2022
... is imperfect, the combination of transmission rates and fertility rates may be quantitatively insufficient for long-term population growth: higher fertility parents may nevertheless produce too few children who retain higher fertility preferences. Second, today even higher fertility subpopulations show...
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Does Childbearing Affect Cognitive Health in Later Life? Evidence From an Instrumental Variable Approach
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 975–994.
Published: 01 June 2022
... able to analyze. First, we examined the average effect of having three or more versus two children on late-life cognition for individuals affected by the instrument (i.e., the sex of the first two children). It is plausible, however, that some parents or subpopulations will not have a preference...
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Prenatal health investment decisions: Does the child’s sex matter?
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 885–905.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in the prenatal health of their sons and daughters when the sex of the child is known in advance? We pay special attention to prenatal health behaviors, which can be viewed as investment decisions, of first-generation immigrant parents from India and China, two countries with demonstrated son preference...
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
...Ridhi Kashyap; Julia Behrman Abstract Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination —leading to girls’ poorer...
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