Estimating the Private Economic Benefits of Sons Versus Daughters in India.
In order to understand the economic incentives behind gender discrimination in India, this paper provides the first estimates of the magnitude of the economic benefits of having a son instead of a daughter. The study estimates large gains from a first-born son to per capita income and expenditure, h...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 77 - 108 |
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