Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193231 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11937
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that parents invest more in young boys than girls, or that women's status increases with the birth of a son. Earlier male births reduce women's midlife employment but do not appear to affect say in household resource allocation. Women in their forties who bore sons at younger ages are considerably more accepting of spousal violence.
Subjects: 
sex information technology
patrilocality
son preference
1918 Albanian census
demographic and health surveys (DHS)
old-age security
resource allocation
communism
household violence
JEL: 
O12
I31
J7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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