| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12856 |
| DP12856 Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today | |
| Paola Giuliano; Alberto Alesina; Nathan Nunn | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-04-10 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the historical origins of cross-country differences in the male-to-female sex ratio. Our analysis focuses on the use of the plough in traditional agriculture. In societies that did not use the plough, women tended to participate in agriculture as actively as men. By contrast, in societies that used the plough, men specialized in agricultural work, due to the physical strength needed to pull the plough or control the animal that pulls it. We hypothesize that this difference caused plough-using societies to value boys more than girls. Today, this belief is reflected in male-biased sex ratios, which arise due to sex-selective abortion or infanticide, or gender-differences in access to family resources, which results in higher mortality rates for girls. Testing this hypothesis, we show that descendants of societies that traditionally practiced plough agriculture today have higher average male-to-female sex ratios. We find that this effect systematically increases in magnitude and statistical significance as one looks at older cohorts. Estimates using instrumental variables confirm our findings from multivariate OLS analysis. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Sex ratio Gender roles Historical persistence Cultural transmission |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12856 |
| 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/541667 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Paola Giuliano,Alberto Alesina,Nathan Nunn. DP12856 Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today. 2018. |
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