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The online version of this article (10.1007/s1068-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Our discussion considers the relative importance of physiological and social depletion effects, and selection processes.

Mortality amongst adoptive parents is lower for those who adopt more than one child, while for parents with biological children we observe a U-shaped relationship, where parity-two parents have the lowest mortality. Our results show the relative risks of mortality for adoptive parents are always lower than those of parents with biological children. Using Swedish register data, we study post-reproductive mortality amongst women and men from cohorts born between 19, over ages 45–97. This study aims to pick apart physiological and social explanations for the parity–mortality relationship by examining the mortality of parents who adopt children, but who have no biological children, in comparison with the mortality of parents with biological children. This contributes to the literature on child sex preferences, which has mostly focused on males (fathers) I have analyzed data on grandmothers to include females.Ī growing literature has demonstrated a relationship between parity and mortality, but the explanation for that relationship remains unclear. Additionally, mothers of girls, without co-residing partners may compensate for the economic loss caused by their lack of partner by living with their own mother. Evidence suggests that in Brazil, fathers show a preference for sons over daughters, while grandmothers show a preference for granddaughters over grandsons. Women with lower birth-order daughters are more likely to have additional children. I also found suggestive evidence that maternal grandmothers are more likely to live with granddaughters than with grandsons. I found women with lower birth-order daughters are less likely to live with a partner. This paper tests the composition of family structure (father co-residence, grandmother co-residence, and birth of siblings) in Brazil associated with the sex of the child by using a nationally representative household survey, treating sex of the first and second child as exogenous variables in OLS regressions. Even though there is no evidence of sex-selective abortion in Brazil, sex preference could still be subtly present. These family types may influence a child’s well-being. Brazil has a high rate of mothers living without a partner as well as a high intergenerational co-residence rate, including parents and grandparents.

Microeconomic theory of fertility pdf files