Sex Preferences, Marital Dissolution, and the Economic Status of Women

By Kelly Bedard, O. Deschenes. The Journal of human resources, 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies

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• The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage (2004, unknown): “10 Bedard and Deschenes (2003) use the relationship between gender of the first child and divorce as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of divorce on women’s labor force participation and family income.”
• Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour (2005, methodology): “Two recent studies (Ananat and Michaels, 2004; Bedard and Deschenes, 2005) use the sex of a first-born child as an instrument for the probability that a woman’s first marriage ends to examine the effects of divorce on women’s labor supply and income.”