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Title: Geology, household formation rules and the demand for sons in Vietnam

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2015

ISBN: 5198244120

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Abstract: This paper explains one mechanism linking the suitability of land for plough agriculture to the relative value of male and female children in Vietnam. It is hypothesized that a link between geology and son preference operates primarily through household formation rules, which are partially a consequence of the suitability of land for plough agriculture. A quasi-natural experiment measures the causal impact of the sex of a woman's first-born child on fertility and under-5 mortality of first-borns. Geography fully accounts for the large observed di↵erences across household types in the impact of male first-borns on, respectively, rural women's fertility under-five child mortality. JEL codes: H4, J1

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2563597

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Authors: Grogan, Louise

Publisher: University of Guelph

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

Countries: Vietnam