Do Daughters Really Cause Divorce? Stress, Pregnancy and Family Composition
Hamoudi, Amar and Jenna Nobles Working paper no. 2014-02 Abstract Provocative studies have reported that in the United States, marriages producing firstborn daughters are more likely to divorce than those producing firstborn sons. The findings have been interpreted as contemporary evidence of fathers’ son-preference. Our study explores the potential role of another set of dynamics …