Development, Modernization, and Childbearing

Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence—or absence—of sons in many regions of the developing world. The response...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Filmer, Deon, Friedman, Jed, Schady, Norbert
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4507