Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia

Michael Kevane () and David Levine ()

Development and Comp Systems from EconWPA

Abstract: In many nations, parents exhibit a variety of behaviors that favor sons over daughters. In this paper we provide evidence suggesting that in Indonesia there is no problem of "missing daughters" and that patterns of births, birth spacing and nutrition allocations do not suggest son preference during the cohorts born from 1940's to the 1990's. In contrast, gender differences in educational attainment and inheritance were quite prevalent in the recent past. These gaps have narrowed for secondary education and inheritance, and disappeared for primary education.

JEL-codes: O12 J71 D13 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-03-25
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Working Paper: Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia (2006)
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