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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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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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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1261–1281.
Published: 16 September 2016
... in skewed SRB levels if technology diffuses early and steadily, and if fertility falls rapidly to encourage sex-selective abortion at low parities. Model sensitivity analysis highlights how the shape of sex ratio trajectories is particularly sensitive to the timing and speed of prenatal sex-determination...
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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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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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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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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 459–479.
Published: 01 August 1994
... 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 abortion. INTRODUCTION In the absence of special circumstances reducing the number of the male or the female members of a population...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
Published: 08 May 2017
... in South Korea, where strong preferences for sons and small families are social norms. 1 He ruled out that sex-selective abortions and postnatal son preferences might invalidate the instrument. His study used parents’ monetary investment in children’s education as a measure of child quality instead...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 May 2006
... while fertility decreased. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Birth Registration Birth Timing Female Birth White Horse Lunar Calendar References Arnold , F. , Kishort , S. , & Roy , T.K. ( 2002 ). Sex-Selective Abortions in India...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1129–1134.
Published: 16 January 2013
... a crucial role in the implementation of the Indian Government’s Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act in 1996 to prevent the misuse of ultrasound and other techniques for the purpose of prenatal sex determination, which has been implicated for selective abortion of girls (Government of India 2005 ). Third...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
... ). Furthermore, prenatal sex selection in the form of sex-selective abortion allows some families to opt out of having daughters (Anukriti et al. 2018 ; Bhalotra and Cochrane 2010 ; Hu and Schlosser 2015 ; Jha et al. 2006 ; Kashyap 2019 ). If technology access to practice sex selection is concentrated...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... gross domestic product (GDP). Alternatively, a three-child policy would reduce the number of “missing girls” by 56% but increase the fertility rate by 35%. 18 3 2011 19 5 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Sex-selective abortion China One-child policy Dynamic...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 February 2000
... ). Determining the Impact of Sex Preference on Fertility: A Demonstration Study . Demography , 18 , 27 – 37 . 10.2307/2061047 Yi, Y., T.F. Liao, and N.H. Cho. 1997. “Male-Child Preferences and Sex-Selective Abortions in Korea.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
... ). In addition, in many countries, sons have more educational opportunities. Second, parents may try to avoid giving birth to a female child. With advances in ultrasound technology, female fetuses may be aborted. Indeed, sex-selective abortion and sex-biased infant mortality lead to distorted sex ratios...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 249–268.
Published: 01 February 2010
.... , Kishor S. , & Roy T.K. ( 2002 ). Sex-Selective Abortion in India . Population and Development Review , 28 , 759 – 85 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2002.00759.x Bhat P.N.M. ( 1995 ). On the Quality of Birth History Data Collected in National Family Health Survey, 1992–93...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... from sex-selective abortion and excess female mortality. Every year, 2 million girls worldwide under age 5 are estimated to be missing. Of these, 70 % were never born (World Bank 2011 ). The implications of persistent, abnormally high sex ratios in South Asia and elsewhere have been studied...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 761–786.
Published: 01 April 2022
... daughters or only sons is high. Parents can ensure children of both sexes, or a child of their preferred sex, by continuing childbearing or using sex-selective abortion ( Clark 2000 ; Guilmoto 2009 ). However, if many parents do not engage in these practices, sons-only and daughters-only families would...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 641–666.
Published: 11 December 2014
... old, compared with 927/1,000 in 2001 and 945/1,000 in 1991 (Jha et al. 2011 ). Most of the increase in imbalance is thought to be due to greater use of sex-selective abortion rather than excess mortality for girls, although both contribute to the imbalance in children under 6 (Jha et al. 2011...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 481–486.
Published: 01 August 1994
...) sex-selective abortion (Hull and Wen 1992). Only the last of these could cause sex ratios at birth to differ significantly from their "normal" level of 1.06±0.01. Yet even the leading proponents of sex-selective abortion as cause do not argue that, to date, it is the primary explanation of elevated...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 325–339.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in these situations: the higher sex ratio in China seems to be driven by sex-selective abortion or sex-selective infanticide, but the situation in India (as demonstrated here) points more to childhood neglect. Understanding why these patterns differ is beyond the scope of this article. How- ever, it may be a fruitful...
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