| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8354 |
| DP8354 Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers | |
| Andrea Ichino; Eliana Viviano; Elly-Ann Lindström | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-04-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Female labour supply Mothers' behaviour Preference for sons |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8354 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537181 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrea Ichino,Eliana Viviano,Elly-Ann Lindström. DP8354 Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers. 2011. |
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