Female Autonomy and Fertility in Nepal

Gudbrandsen, Njård Håkon

doi:10.1177/1391561413477945

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“…12 The instrument will measure the additional effect on number of children of having a second-born girl subject to having a first-born girl. 13 If there is a son preference we expect the dummy to have a strong effect on number of children, which is already documented by Gudbrandsen (2013).…”

Section: Causalitymentioning

confidence: 83%

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Son Preference, Number of Children, Education and Occupational Choice in Rural Nepal

Hatlebakk

2016

Review Development Economics

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A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first‐born girl. Women have more children, but we find no causal effect of number of children on economic outcomes, but independently of the number of children there is a positive effect on boys’ education of having a first‐born sister, who presumably takes care of household work so the boys can focus on school. This indicates a stronger son preference in Nepal than that found in studies from neighboring countries.

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Section: Causalitymentioning

confidence: 83%

“…The fact that Nepali women have more children if the first born is a girl is well known-see for example Gudbrandsen (2013), who uses the 2006 demographic and health survey (DHS). 2 The DHS data has, however, only limited information on economic outcomes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Son Preference, Number of Children, Education and Occupational Choice in Rural Nepal

Hatlebakk

2016

Review Development Economics

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“…In Nepal, as in other countries, there is a strong preference for boys. Couples whose first child is a girl are more likely to have another child, hoping it will be a boy (Gudbrandsen, 2013;Hatlebakk, 2012).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fertility, household size and poverty in Nepal

Libois

Somville

2018

World Development

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Population control policies keep attracting attention: by increasing the household size, having more children would directly contribute to a household's poverty. Using nationally representative household level data from Nepal, we investigate the links between a household's fertility decisions and variations in their size and composition. We show that the relationship between number of births and household size is positive when the mothers are young, but becomes negative as the mothers grow older. Elderly couples who had fewer children host, on average, more relatives who are outside the immediate family unit. This result sheds light on the heterogeneous relation between the number of children and household size over the life cycle. It also implies that reductions in a household's fertility may have an ambiguous impact on its per capita consumption, which depends on how the household's composition responds to new births and changes over time: in this sample, an old household's per capita consumption is not affected by the number of births. We use the gender of the first-born child to instrument the total number of consecutive children.

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“…Hindi (2005) uses three different variables to capture autonomy: number of decisions in which women have the final say, number of decisions in which the partner has the final say, and number of decisions in which women and partners have a joint say. Gudbradsen (2013) in his study of female autonomy and fertility employed only one of the indicators of autonomy as measured by Demographic and Health Survey -final say on visits to family and friends.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, we employ the four indicators of autonomy as used by Demographic andHealth Survey (2006-2007 for Namibia and 2008 DHS for Nigeria because of the complexity involved in measuring some of these dimensions (Gudbradsen, 2013).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%