TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pogrebna, Ganna
AU  - Oswald, Andrew J.
AU  - Haig, David
        TI  - Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
        PY  - 2017/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10717
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10717
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - Trivers-Willard hypothesis
KW  - child gender
KW  - daughters
KW  - risk attitudes
KW  - pregnancy
        ER  -