Differential Fecundity and Gender-Biased Parental Investments in Health

Aloysius Siow () and Xiaodong Zhu

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, vol. 5, issue 4, 999-1024

Abstract: Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. In monogamous societies with divorce and remarriage, fecund women are relatively scarce. This paper studies how parents, who maximize discounted dynastic consumption, invest in the survival of their sons and daughters. The theory also generates endogenous sex ratios, income class sizes, and population growth. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Gender bias; parental investment; health; population growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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