TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Grogan, Louise
        TI  - Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania
        PY  - 2018/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11937
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11937
        AB  - Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that parents invest more in young boys than girls, or that women's status increases with the birth of a son. Earlier male births reduce women's midlife employment but do not appear to affect say in household resource allocation. Women in their forties who bore sons at younger ages are considerably more accepting of spousal violence.

        KW  - sex information technology
KW  - patrilocality
KW  - son preference
KW  - 1918 Albanian census
KW  - demographic and health surveys (DHS)
KW  - old-age security
KW  - resource allocation
KW  - communism
KW  - household violence
        ER  -