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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 77–100.
Published: 17 December 2011
.... Guilmoto C. Z. ( 2009 ). The sex ratio transition in Asia . Population and Development Review , 35 , 519 – 549 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00295.x Guilmoto C. Z. ( 2010 ). Longer-term disruptions to demographic structures in China and India resulting from skewed sex ratios at birth...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1129–1134.
Published: 16 January 2013
... either one or both parents were physicians. The overall child sex ratio was more skewed than the national average of 914. The conditional sex ratios decreased with increasing number of previous female births, and a previous birth of a daughter in the family was associated with a 38 % reduced likelihood...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 183–208.
Published: 21 January 2015
... birth cohort size; (3) female educational expansion. Existing literature posits declining marriage rates for men arising from skewed sex ratios at birth (SRBs) in India’s population. In addition to skewed SRBs, India’s population will experience female educational expansion in the coming decades. Female...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 627–652.
Published: 23 March 2020
...Eleanor Jawon Choi; Jisoo Hwang Abstract Sex ratio at birth remains highly skewed in many Asian countries because of son preference. The ratio in South Korea, however, declined beginning in 1990 and reached the natural range in 2007. We study changes in child gender effects on fertility...
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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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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
.... First, the sex ratio at birth in Korea has recently recovered to become more balanced after having been very skewed. This motivates further investigation of what drove this change in fertility behavior. 1 Second, useful implications can be obtained for countries with highly skewed sex ratios...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
... at birth of about 105 boys per 100 girls. 1 Skewed sex ratios have also been documented in Albania, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, India, Korea, Montenegro, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Vietnam ( Chao et al. 2019 ; United Nations 2019 ). Little is known, however, about the preferences that give rise...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... across birth parities. As predicted by the DSB model, however, the sex ratio at last birth is highly skewed in favor of males, and males are more likely to grow up in smaller families. Next, I exploit the first child’s sex outcome—a purely random process in the absence of prenatal sex selection...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 587–605.
Published: 01 April 2022
... level of overall under-five mortality signals the opposite—that infant mortality is more skewed toward endogenous causes arising from premature birth. Indeed, looking at the data on infant and child mortality and prematurity in the United States by sex and race/ethnicity, there is a strong positive...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 641–666.
Published: 11 December 2014
... Guilmoto , C. ( 2012 ). Skewed sex ratios at birth and future marriage squeeze in China and India, 2005–2100 . Demography , 49 , 77 – 100 . 10.1007/s13524-011-0083-7 Guilmoto , C. Z. , & Rajan , S. I. ( 2001 ). Spatial patterns of fertility transitions in Indian districts...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1019–1040.
Published: 29 March 2014
... . Population-E , 63 , 91 – 118 . 10.3917/pope.801.0091 Guilmoto , C. Z. ( 2009 ). The sex ratio transition in Asia . Population and Development Review , 35 , 519 – 549 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00295.x Guilmoto , C. Z. ( 2012 ). Skewed sex ratio at birth and future marriage...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 579–586.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Laurie Meneades for assistance building the analytic data. This research was supported by NIH Grant R-01 AG17548-01 and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholars Program. 580 Demography, Volume 47-Number 3, August 2010 First, skewed sex ratios have been linked to delays in marriage...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 761–786.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “missing” because they were never born. From the 1980s onward, the spread of prenatal sex-selection technology—ultrasounds and abortion—allowed families to identify and abort unwanted female fetuses ( Arnold et al. 2002 ; Guilmoto et al. 2018 ). Hence, sex ratios at birth skewed male in many patrilineal...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
... ; Jayachandran 2017 ). Bongaarts ( 2013 ) argued that sex ratios at birth are likely to be altered by the fertility transition in parts of sub-Saharan Africa with strong son preferences. Without access to sex-selective technology, the concern is that discrimination against female infants in Africa will increase...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2005–2031.
Published: 05 December 2019
... are more susceptible to fetal insults (Sanders and Stoecker 2015 ; Trivers and Willard 1973 ). We find that sex ratios decrease by 0.9 percentage points (1.8 %) in Flint compared with other Michigan cities. Sanders and Stoecker ( 2015 ) found that birth ratios skewed more male following...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 291–316.
Published: 19 February 2011
... tend to be highly skewed among second- and higher-order births—as shown in Fig. 5 for China in 2000 and 2005—because parents who proceed to higher-order births often do so to have a son (Bhat and Zavier 2003 ). As a result, because of the steep gradient between sex ratios of first and subsequent...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
...” relative to naturally occurring birth patterns, distorting the sex ratio of males to females. A consensus has emerged that sex selection via infanticide and abortion is the principal explanation for the rising sex ratio in China (Chu 2001 ; Zeng et al. 1993 ). This pattern is also found in India, where...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of nonmarital births in large U.S. cities. For more details on the design of the Fragile Families study, see Reichman et al. (2001). One city in the study, Norfolk, VA, is an outlier on the main independent variable the crude sex ratio because a mostly male military base is located in that city. Therefore...
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 33–43.
Published: 01 February 1993
... from 5,892 women aged 15-44. Information on date of birth, sex, current survival status, andage at death (if relevant) was extracted for the 12,357 live births reported by the women. The length of the preceding birth interval was calculated from the reported dates of birth of the index child and his...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 559–579.
Published: 27 April 2011
... need the sex ratio at birth to calculate the number of new agents per simulation step. We again use Austrian data of the particular base year for this purpose. To simulate mortality, 3 we use the death probability from the Austrian Life Table of 1981, 1991, or 2001 (Statistik Austria 1998...
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