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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Knight, J, Shi, L, Quheng, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2010