Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201381 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 264
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We then study the son preference-specific girl-penalty in early cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Son preferences have adverse effects on cognitive and language skills of two-year-old girls at higher birth orders, for girls with sisters and for girls of mothers with a high number of desired sons.
Subjects: 
Son Preferences
Gender Discrimination
Early Childhood
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
JEL: 
I12
J13
J16
J24
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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