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Sex selection with biased technologies and its effect on the population sex ratio
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 285–296.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Andrew Mason; Neil G. Bennett Abstract Current biomedical research on sex selection techniques may soon offer couples the opportunity to choose the sex of their children with greater certainty. A technique planned for marketing by mid-I978 can increase the probability of bearing a son to as much...
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Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... through initiatives that provide financial compensation to parents with daughters. Other scholars have advocated a relaxation of the one-child policy to allow more parents to have a son without engaging in sex selection. In this article, I present a model of fertility choice when parents have access...
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Decision tree of model of sex selection. The two-child model consists of th...
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Fig. 2 Decision tree of model of sex selection. The two-child model consists of three decisions. The completed fertility outcomes are in boxes and the intermediate outcomes are in ovals
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 61–88.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Claus C. Pörtner Abstract Since the advent of prenatal sex-determination technologies in the mid-1980s, India has experienced an increasingly male-biased sex ratio at birth, presumably from sex-selective abortions. Abortions lengthen birth intervals, but we know little about how birth spacing has...
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View articletitled, Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Selective</span> Abortions: India's Experience Over Four Decades
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Sex Differences in Remarriage and Spouse Selection
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 335–348.
Published: 01 August 1981
... patterns of remarriage and spouse selection that tend to hold across countries. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1981 1981 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 18, Number 3 August 1981 SEX DIFFERENCES IN REMARRIAGE AND SPOUSE SELECTION Joseph Chamie Population Division, United Nations, New York...
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in Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 2 Evidence for underreporting of sex-selective abortions. We infer the expected number of girls from the observed number of boys in our sample by modeling the gender of a child as an i.i.d. draw from a Bernoulli distribution and assuming a natural sex ratio at birth of 105 boys for every
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Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 291–316.
Published: 19 February 2011
... also suggests that China’s fertility in the late 1990s (and perhaps beyond) was below officially adjusted levels. I then conduct a similar intercensal analysis of sex ratios of births and children, which are the world’s highest primarily because of prenatal sex selection. However, given excess...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1261–1281.
Published: 16 September 2016
...Ridhi Kashyap; Francisco Villavicencio Abstract We present a micro-founded simulation model that formalizes the “ready, willing, and able” framework, originally used to explain historical fertility decline, to the practice of prenatal sex selection. The model generates sex ratio at birth (SRB...
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View articletitled, The Dynamics of Son Preference, Technology Diffusion, and Fertility Decline Underlying Distorted <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> Ratios at Birth: A Simulation Approach
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Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Fig. 2 Evidence for underreporting of sex-selective abortions. We infer the expected number of girls from the observed number of boys in our sample by modeling the gender of a child as an i.i.d. draw from a Bernoulli distribution and assuming a natural sex ratio at birth of 105 boys for every...
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Bombay migration study: A pilot analysis of migration to an Asian metropolis
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 378–392.
Published: 01 June 1966
... emphasis on changes in industrial and occupotiona structure. For the 1951–61 decade, the extensiveness of out-migration of former in-migrants, its age-sex selectivity, and its high incidence among recent migrants are demonstrated. As is true elsewhere, migration to Bombay is shown to be highly selective...
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Skewed Sex Ratios in India: “Physician, Heal Thyself”
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1129–1134.
Published: 16 January 2013
...Archana B. Patel; Neetu Badhoniya; Manju Mamtani; Hemant Kulkarni Abstract Sex selection, a gender discrimination of the worst kind, is highly prevalent across all strata of Indian society. Physicians have a crucial role in this practice and implementation of the Indian Government’s Pre-Natal...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... Alternatively, bias could increase with education through more access to sex-selective medical technologies. Using National Vital Statistics data on the population of live births in the United States for 1969–2018, we examine trends in infant sex ratios by parental race/ethnicity, education, and birth parity...
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View articletitled, Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018
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Prenatal health investment decisions: Does the child’s sex matter?
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 885–905.
Published: 01 November 2008
.... Ultrasound receipt proxies for knowing fetal gender, enabling us to separate child sex-related biological differences from investment differences in sons’ and daughters’ health. There is evidence consistent with sex-selective abortions among Indian and Chinese populations, but among parents who choose...
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Transition of Son Preference: Evidence From South Korea
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 627–652.
Published: 23 March 2020
... and parental investment during this period of decreasing sex ratio at birth. We find that gender discrimination on the extensive margin (fertility), such as sex-selective abortions and son-biased stopping rules, have nearly disappeared among recent cohorts. On the intensive margin (parental inputs), boys...
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Occupations, migration, sex ratios, and nuptiality in nineteenth century English communities: A model of relationships
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 1986
... to nuptiality levels via sex selective migration patterns and population sex ratios. Our analysis shows that nuptiality levels in nineteenth century English and Welsh districts were responsive to occupational variation and that both direct and indirect effects were significant. Our results suggest...
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Five Decades of Missing Females in China
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 459–479.
Published: 01 August 1994
... because they died very young. The incidence of excess early female mortality (probably infanticide) declined precipitously in the Communist period, but not to zero. The recent escalation in the proportion of young females missing in China has been caused largely by rapidly escalating sex-selective...
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Published: 27 September 2018
Fig. 8 Age-sex compositions of immigrants born in selected countries or regions by period of entry, 2011. For each age-sex composition, males are on the left, and females are on the right
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Sex gap (female – male) in life expectancy at birth by selected countries, ...
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in The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition
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Published: 20 November 2019
Fig. 1 Sex gap (female – male) in life expectancy at birth by selected countries, 1880–2010. “Others” indicates the remaining countries used in the analysis. Source : Authors’ calculations based on HMD ( 2018 ).
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in Are Older Persons in China Living More Years in an Independent Living Arrangement? Estimates Using Multistate Life Tables
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 2 Ratio of ILLE to TLE by select ages, sex, and period. *The increase or decrease in the ratio over time is statistically significant at p < .05.
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
... – 210 . Basu , D. , & De Jong , R. ( 2010 ). Son targeting fertility behavior: Some consequences and determinants . Demography , 47 , 521 – 536 . Bhalotra , S. R. , & Cochrane , T. ( 2010 ). Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection...
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