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dc.contributor.authorQUERIN, Federica
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-14T11:27:53Z
dc.date.available2022-02-14T11:27:53Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationPopulation studies, 2022, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-18en
dc.identifier.issn0032-4728
dc.identifier.issn1477-4747
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/74068
dc.descriptionPublished online: 08 February 2022en
dc.description.abstractParents with two boys or two girls are more likely to have a third child than those with a ‘sex mix’. However, little is known on whether these ‘mixed-sex preferences’ extend beyond the nuclear family. This study leverages the random variation in sex at birth to assess whether the sex of nieces and nephews, in combination with own children, matters for fertility choices. Using three-generational data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), I show that extended families (including grandparents, their children, and their grandchildren) are collectively more likely to have three or more grandchildren when lacking sex mix, whether the first two grandchildren are siblings or cousins. I explore the pathways for these offspring sex preferences, finding support for a preference for an uninterrupted line of male descendants. This multigenerational approach also contributes a new estimation strategy that causally estimates the effects of family sizes on outcomes beyond fertility.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofPopulation studiesen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titlePreferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring : a multigenerational approachen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00324728.2022.2027003
dc.identifier.volume76
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.endpage18
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