Development, Modernization, and Childbearing: The Role of Family Sex Composition
Development, Modernization, and Childbearing: The Role of Family Sex Composition
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DOI：
10.1093/wber/lhp009
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Schady, Norbert
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作者：
Filmer, Deon;Friedman, Jed;Schady, Norbert
家庭中现有子女的性别构成是否影响生育行为？一个异常庞大的数据集，涵盖了64个国家和大约500万个新生儿，被用来表明在发展中国家的许多地区，生育行为对有或没有儿子的反应。在中亚和南亚，对没有儿子的反应尤其强烈。现代化似乎并没有减少这种差别反应。例如，在南亚，受教育程度较高的妇女对没有儿子的生育反应较大，而且随着时间的推移，这种反应一直在增加。对此的解释似乎是，当生育率低时，对儿子的潜在需求更有可能表现出来。由于这种不同的生育行为，女孩在成长过程中的兄弟姐妹往往比男孩多得多，当数量-质量权衡导致分配给大家庭中儿童的物质和情感资源较少时，对她们的福祉可能产生影响。JEL代码：J16，J13，O 15
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 example, in South Asia the fertility response to the absence of sons is larger for women with more education and has been increasing over time. The explanation appears to be that a latent demand for sons is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of this differential fertility behavior, girls tend to grow up with significantly more siblings than do boys, with potential implications for their well-being when quantity-quality tradeoffs result in fewer material and emotional resources allocated to children in larger families. JEL codes: J16, J13, O15