Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
| Autor: | Elly-Ann Lindström, Eliana Viviano, Andrea Ichino |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Andrea Ichino, Elly-Ann Lindströmb, Eliana Viviano |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Economics and Econometrics
media_common.quotation_subject Fertility preference for sons female labour supply mothers’ behaviour Female labor supply Preference for sons Mothers’ behavior Developmental psychology jel:E24 jel:J13 jel:J22 Work (electrical) jel:J23 Female labour supply mothers' behaviour preference for sons Psychology Finance media_common |
| Popis: | We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen randomly by nature. We consider two explanations. As Dahl and Moretti (2008) we show that first-born boys positively affect the probability that a marriage survives, but differently from them and from the literature on developing countries, we show that after a first-born boy the probability that women have more children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability of marriages, which is neglected by studies that focus on married women only. |
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