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Pogrebna, Ganna, Oswald, Andrew J. and Haig, David (2018) Female babies and risk-aversion : causal evidence from hospital wards. Journal of Health Economics , 58 . pp. 10-17. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.006 ISSN 0167-6296.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.006
Abstract
Using ultrasound scan data from paediatric hospitals, and the exogenous ‘shock’ of learning the gender of an unborn baby, the paper documents the first causal evidence that offspring gender affects adult risk-aversion. On a standard Holt-Laury criterion, parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, become almost twice as risk-averse as parents of sons. The study demonstrates this in longitudinal and cross-sectional data, for fathers and mothers, for babies in the womb and new-born children, and in a West European nation and East European nation. These findings may eventually aid our understanding of risky health behaviors and gender inequalities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Parenthood -- Psychological asects, Daughters, Risk perception | ||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Health Economics | ||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0167-6296 | ||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | March 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 10-17 | ||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.006 | ||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 January 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 February 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
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