Son Preference and Fertility in China, South Korea, and the United States

Dudley L. Poston (), Hosik Min and Sherry L. McKibben
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Dudley L. Poston: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology
Hosik Min: University of South Alabama
Sherry L. McKibben: City of Huntsville

Chapter Chapter 14 in The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies, 2014, pp 229-247 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sex ratio at birth (SRB) is fairly uniform worldwide (Chahnazarian 1991). Countries with fair to good birth registration data report SRBs of around 104–107 male births for every 100 female births. However, countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, and India, among others, have unbalanced SRBs, due likely to their preferences for sons (Guttentag and Secord 1983; Birdsall 1985; Hull 1990; Zeng et al. 1993; Park and Cho 1995; Poston et al. 1997; Poston 2002; Poston et al. 2011). In these countries the numbers of male births are greater than female births, around 110 or more male births per 100 female births.

Keywords: Live Birth; Married Woman; Chinese Woman; Total Fertility Rate; Fertility Decline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7445-2_14

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