In this paper, we investigate how the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship varies between sons and daughters whether such a process depends on living in country characterized by high gender gap. Using Survey Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe data set, find that effect daughters' entrepreneurial choices having an entrepreneur as father is lower than one only countries with Moreover...

Abstract Although the literature on informal care-giving for older parents shows that daughters have a higher tendency to provide care compared with sons, only few studies focused gender composition of all children or parents’ entire range options. Our study examines effect children's and formal types, as well network. Using data from 2015 Survey Health, Ageing Retirement in Europe (N = 40,312)...

BACKGROUND International studies suggest ethnic differences in obesity prevalence may be due, in part, to differences in body image and body size dissatisfaction between groups. Further, there is evidence to suggest that there is a familial resemblance in body image between mothers and their younger (preadolescent) daughters. This research was therefore conducted to specifically identify the ex...

Helle et al. (1) showed that producing and raising sons reduced the longevity of preindustrial Sami women, whereas daughters tended to have the opposite effect. They suggested that the life-shortening effect of sons could be attributed to higher endocrinological or physiological costs of producing sons compared with those of producing daughters, and that the life-elongating effect of raising da...

National and regional bull evaluations were compared for ability to predict standardized milk yield of future daughters. Correlations between evaluations and first-, second-, and third-parity yields of future daughters were calculated within herd-year-month group. Mean correlations with predicted yield of future daughters across the United States were higher for national (0.109, 0.111, and 0.08...