Did I Say That?

Steven Landsburg has written a followup to his piece on how the gender of children affects divorce rates. This one is called, "Maybe Parents Don't Like Boys Better." Landsburg settles on a less controversial explanation for the difference in divorce rates of parents who have sons versus daughters: the importance of inherited wealth. Perhaps wealth is more important for a boy than a girl because a man's mating potential is strongly determined by wealth and because a man is more likely to be entreprenurial. Consequently, parents will be less likely to have other kids (which dilutes the wealth) and won't get divorced.

This answer seems less intuitive. I should have read the study itself because the difference in divorce rates is only about 4%. Moreover, the trend has been changing: developing countries tend to have a larger disparity than developed. I will leave the discussion at that.