Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia

Michael Kevane and David Levine

Development and Comp Systems from University Library of Munich, Germany

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: D13 I21 J71 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2003-03-25
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Working Paper: Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia (2003)
Working Paper: The Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia (2000)
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