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Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia

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Michael Kevane (Department of Economics, Santa Clara University)
David I. Levine (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)

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In many nations, parents exhibit a variety of behaviors that favor sons over daughters. In this paper we provide evidence suggesting that in Indonesia there is no problem of "missing daughters" and that patterns of births, birth spacing and nutrition allocations do not suggest son preference during the cohorts born from 1940's to the 1990's. In contrast, gender differences in educational attainment and inheritance were quite prevalent in the recent past. These gaps have narrowed for secondary education and inheritance, and disappeared for primary education.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Development and Comp Systems with number 0303003.

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Date of creation: 25 Mar 2003
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O12 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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  1. Michael Kevane & David Levine, 2006. "Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away?," Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series 1043, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
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  2. David I. Levine & Minnie Ames, 2003. "Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?," Development and Comp Systems 0303001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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