Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
| dc.contributor.author | Congdon Fors, Heather | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lindskog, Annika | |
| dc.contributor.organization | Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg | sv |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-25T11:57:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-25T11:57:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-10 | |
| dc.description | D13, I20, J16, O15 | sv |
| dc.description.abstract | We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific fertility stopping rules and sex-selective abortions). Results show strong impacts of gender-biased fertility strategies on education differences between girls and boys. Preferential treatment of boys has a more limited impact on gender differences. Further, results suggest that gender-biased fertility strategies create gender inequalities in education both because girls and boys end up in systematically different families and because of gender-inequalities in pecuniary investment within families. The extra advantage of the eldest son within the family is small. | sv |
| dc.format.extent | 31 | sv |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1403-2465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/62249 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economics | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 781 | sv |
| dc.subject | Son preferences | sv |
| dc.subject | Gender | sv |
| dc.subject | Sex-selection | sv |
| dc.subject | Fertility-stopping rules | sv |
| dc.subject | Human Capital | sv |
| dc.subject | Education | sv |
| dc.subject | Birth order | sv |
| dc.title | Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India | sv |
| dc.type | Text | sv |
| dc.type.svep | report | sv |