Development, modernization, and childbearing : the role of family sex composition (English)

Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence, or absence, of sons in many regions of the developing world. The response to the absence of sons is particularly large in Central Asia and South Asia. Modernization does not appear to reduce this differential response. For...

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Filmer,Deon P.;

Friedman,Jed;

Schady,Norbert Rudiger;
Document Date
2009/11/01
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
77629
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2013/05/28
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Disclosed
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Development, modernization, and childbearing : the role of family sex composition
Keywords
differential fertility

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Filmer,Deon P.; Friedman,Jed; Schady,Norbert Rudiger.

Development, modernization, and childbearing : the role of family sex composition (English). Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/468001468180900405

Development, modernization, and childbearing : the role of family sex composition (English)

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