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

Louise Grogan ()
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Louise Grogan: University of Guelph

No 11937, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: sex information technology; patrilocality; son preference; 1918 Albanian census; demographic and health surveys (DHS); old-age security; resource allocation; communism; household violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J7 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2018-11
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