Girls and boys: Economic crisis, fertility, and birth outcomes
研究了1997年亚洲金融危机对韩国新生儿数量和出生体重的影响，发现危机导致女孩出生数减少2%，且女孩出生结果并不优于男孩，与特里弗斯-威拉德假说相悖。
Summary We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birth weight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls would have been 2% higher absent the crisis and that birth outcomes for girls were no better than those for boys—findings that differ from the Trivers–Willard Hypothesis. This relative disadvantage of girls is more severe among newborns who have at least two older siblings.