The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage

By Gordon B. Dahl, Enrico Moretti. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies

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In Demography

1. D. Lawson
2. Ruth Mace
3. Shelly Lundberg
4. Daniel Nettle

In Gender Studies

1. D. Lawson
2. Ruth Mace
3. Shelly Lundberg
4. Daniel Nettle

Citations in the corpus

• Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy (2009, unknown): “…Conley and Glauber (2005) and Qian (2006)), mention that spacing may have an independent effect on quality and thus that use of twins may be invalid.1 However, unlike for birthweight, no Michael (2004), Dahl and Moretti (2004)), which may have an independent effect on children’s human capital.”
• Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour (2005, methodology): “6 per cent) on the probability that his mother has ever been married (Dahl and Moretti, 2004).”
• Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide (2012, unknown): “As a consequence, also within economics an increasing number of studies have been devoted to a better understanding of the determinants of the decision to have children (e.g. Dahl and Moretti, 2004; Fernandez and Fogli, 2006; Feyrer et al., 2008; Milligin, 2005).”
• Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Noncognitive Abilities (2017, unknown): “Work by Dahl and Moretti (2004), Butcher and Case (1994), Conley (2000), and Deschenes (2007) all find some evidence of sex-composition effects, while Kaestner (1997) and Hauser and Kuo (1998) find no evidence for such heterogeneities.”
• Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care (2009, background): “For example, Dahl and Moretti (2004) demonstrate that sons relative to daughters have a positive effect on marital stability, as evidenced by US divorce rates (see also Lundberg, 2005).”