%0 Report
        %A Pogrebna, Ganna
%A Oswald, Andrew J.
%A Haig, David
        %T Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10717
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10717
        %X Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, are shown to be almost twice as risk-averse as parents of sons. The study demonstrates this in longitudinal ('switching') data and cross-sectional data. The study finds it for fathers and mothers, babies in the womb and recently born children, and for a West European nation and an East European nation.
        %K Trivers-Willard hypothesis
%K child gender
%K daughters
%K risk attitudes
%K pregnancy