¿Niña o niño? Un estudio sobre las preferencias de los padres mexicanos por el sexo de sus hijos

Andres Mendez Ruiz and Raymundo M. Campos Vázquez
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Raymundo M. Campos Vázquez: El Colegio de México
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Estudios Económicos, 2013, vol. 28, issue 2, 217-248

Abstract: Among Mexican parents child gender has an effect on family structure and fertility decisions. A first-born daughter increases the probability of father absence, of maternal custody in case of marital dissolution, of having more children and of a shorter elapsed period before a new child is born. The collection of evidence suggests that those effects are the result of a preference for sons among parents and not the result of other causes that could explain some of the results separately.

Keywords: fertility; family structure; preference for sons; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J12 J13 J24 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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