Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11937

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; General Welfare; Well-Being
• Subject: sex information technology ; patrilocality ; son preference ; demographic and health surveys (DHS) ; old-age security ; resource allocation ; communism ; household violence

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grogan, Louise
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/193231
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