TY - JOUR AU - Méndez Ruiz, Andrés AU - Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M. PY - 2013/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Girl or boy? A study on Mexican parents' preferences for the sex of their children JF - Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México JA - EE VL - 28 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.24201/ee.v28i2.80 UR - https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/80 SP - 217-248 AB - <p>Among Mexican parents child gender has an effect on family structure and fertility decisions. A first-born daughter increases the probability of father absence, of maternal custody in case of marital dissolution, of having more children and of a shorter elapsed period before a new child is born. The collection of evidence suggests that those effects are the result of a preference for sons among parents and not the result of other causes that could explain some of the results separately.</p> ER -