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The effect of offspring sex on parents’ migration probabilities and outcomes: A natural experiment

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Bialas,  Ulrike       
Socio-Cultural Diversity, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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Bialas, U. (2022). The effect of offspring sex on parents’ migration probabilities and outcomes: A natural experiment. Sociological Inquiry, 92(S1), 681-709. doi:10.1111/soin.12399.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-390B-9
Abstract
Scholars can rarely make causal claims about migration probabilities and outcomes.Leveraging a natural experiment based on the randomness of offspring sex, this paperuses the German SOEP Migration Sample to examine the effect of having afirst-bornson or daughter on parents’likelihood to migrate and integrate. It shows that (non-Chris-tian) parents of sons are more likely to migrate to Germany, but parents of daughtersfare better after migration in terms of language acquisition, feeling at home and overallsatisfied with their lives. Thefirstfinding is explained through gendered differences inparental investment, risk aversion, and household decision-making. The secondfindingis explained through girls’greater ability to act as brokers between their parents and thehost society. For migration scholarship, the study provides a rare causal argument aboutfamily migration. For research on offspring sex effects, it provides further evidence of asocialization from child to parent, expands the possibility of offspring sex effects fromparental attitudes to behaviors, and cautions against assuming that offspring sex is ran-dom in all populations