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Labor Market Conditions and Cultural Change: Evidence from Vietnam

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This paper relates strategic parental fertility behavior and early-childhood human capital investments to prospective labor market opportunities in Vietnam. Suitability of land for plow adoption is shown to influence both traditional postmarital residence rules and contemporary under-5 sex ratios. A quasi-natural experiment identifies causal impacts of the sex of a woman’s first-born child on fertility and under-5 mortality across household types with historically different relative productivity of the sexes in agriculture. Impacts vary across household type for rural but not for second-generation urban women. Cultural heterogeneity attributable to relative productivity in preindustrial societies is strongly mitigated by rural-urban migration.

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  • Louise Grogan, 2018. "Labor Market Conditions and Cultural Change: Evidence from Vietnam," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 99-124.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/696073
    DOI: 10.1086/696073
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    1. Gautam Hazarika & Chandan Kumar Jha & Sudipta Sarangi, 2019. "Ancestral ecological endowments and missing women," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 32(4), pages 1101-1123, October.

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