The curious case of son preference and household income in rural China

Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given the draco...

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Principais autores: Knight, J, Shi, L, Quheng, D
Formato: Working paper
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2008
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