{"id":55668,"date":"2026-09-04T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/evento\/seminario-child-sex-and-parental-life-satisfaction-causal-evidence-from-the-swiss-household-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:36:37","slug":"seminario-child-sex-and-parental-life-satisfaction-causal-evidence-from-the-swiss-household-panel","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/evento\/seminario-child-sex-and-parental-life-satisfaction-causal-evidence-from-the-swiss-household-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: \u00abChild Sex and Parental Life Satisfaction: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Household Panel\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The CajaCanarias \u2013 Cabildo de Tenerife Chair of Economics and Mobility at the University of La Laguna is organizing a seminar entitled &quot;Child Sex and Parental Life Satisfaction: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Household Panel&quot; on Thursday, September 10th at 12:00 pm in the Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism. The seminar will be given by Daniel Hern\u00e1ndez, a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), where he is completing his doctoral thesis in the field of applied microeconomics using survey data, following his previous work at the Household Survey Unit of the Bank of Spain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Traditionally, economists have inferred parental preferences regarding the sex of offspring through indirect indicators, such as stopping rules or birth spacing. In Europe, however, declining fertility rates have reduced family size, and with fewer households having three or more children, this behavioral range\u2014on which inferences depend\u2014offers less variability to exploit. Nevertheless, even if the sex of offspring already born does not substantially alter reproductive behavior through new conceptions, it can influence how mothers and fathers evaluate their lives and the degree to which their circumstances align with their ideals (subjective well-being).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This seminar will present causal evidence of the effect of having a daughter (versus a son) on the life satisfaction of mothers and fathers in Switzerland for first and second births, using 25 years of data from the Swiss Household Panel (2000\u20132024) and exploiting the quasi-random assignment of the baby&#039;s sex at birth. Following the second birth, medium-term effects on parental well-being are observed, dependent on the sex of the firstborn and consistent with a preference for mixed-gender families that becomes apparent when the child is old enough to interact with both parents.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La C\u00e1tedra de Econom\u00eda y movilidad CajaCanarias &#8211; Cabildo de Tenerife de la Universidad de La Laguna organiza el pr\u00f3ximo jueves 10 de septiembre a las 12:00 horas en el&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55672,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[443,292,249,270,243,253],"class_list":["post-55668","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-catedra-de-economia-y-movilidad-cajacanarias-cabildo-de-tenerife","tribe_events_cat-catedras","tribe_events_cat-destacado-ull","tribe_events_cat-facultad-de-economia-empresa-y-turismo","tribe_events_cat-facultades-y-escuelas","tribe_events_cat-portada-ull","cat_catedra-de-economia-y-movilidad-cajacanarias-cabildo-de-tenerife","cat_catedras","cat_destacado-ull","cat_facultad-de-economia-empresa-y-turismo","cat_facultades-y-escuelas","cat_portada-ull"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55670,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55668\/revisions\/55670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55668"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/agenda\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=55668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}