| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15391 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15391 |
| O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada | |
| Douglas Almond; Lena Edlund; Kevin Milligan | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-10-01 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian countries, notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, focussing on sex ratios across generations and religious groups. We find sex ratios to be normal at first parity, but rising with parity if there were no previous son. Since these immigrants are neither poor nor live in a society tolerant of sex discrimination/sex selection, our findings are more consistent with a preference for sons per se (and not for sons as a means to, e.g., old age support). Additionally, we uncover strong differences by religious affiliation that align with historical differences in doctrine concerning infanticide. Comparing across generations of Asian immigrants, we find fertility responds strongly to the sex composition of older children for first generation families. For the second generation, expression of son preference through the fertility channel is muted whereas sex selection seems to persist. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15391 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573067 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Douglas Almond,Lena Edlund,Kevin Milligan. O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada. 2009. |
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