Female babies and risk-aversion: Causal evidence from hospital wards
Female babies and risk-aversion: Causal evidence from hospital wards
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.006
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Haig, David
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作者：
Pogrebna, Ganna;Oswald, Andrew J.;Haig, David
该论文利用儿科医院的超声波扫描数据，以及了解未出生婴儿性别的外源性“冲击”，记录了后代性别影响成人风险规避的第一个因果证据。根据标准的霍尔特-劳里标准，女儿的父母，无论是未出生的还是刚出生的，厌恶风险的程度几乎是儿子父母的两倍。该研究通过纵向和横向数据证明了这一点，包括父亲和母亲、子宫内婴儿和新生儿、西欧国家和东欧国家。这些发现最终可能有助于我们了解危险的健康行为和性别不平等。 (C) 2018 作者。由 Elsevier B.V. 出版
Using ultrasound scan data from paediatric hospitals, and the exogenous 'shock' of learning the gender of an unborn baby, the paper documents the first causal evidence that offspring gender affects adult risk aversion. On a standard Holt-Laury criterion, parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, become almost twice as risk-averse as parents of sons. The study demonstrates this in longitudinal and cross-sectional data, for fathers and mothers, for babies in the womb and new-born children, and in a West European nation and East European nation. These findings may eventually aid our understanding of risky health behaviors and gender inequalities. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.