Fertility Decline and Missing Women

Seema Jayachandran

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Abstract: This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have systematically stronger son preference, which generates bias. This paper instead elicits desired sex composition at specified, randomly determined, levels of total fertility. These data allow one to isolate the causal effect of family size on the desired sex ratio.

Keywords: fertility decline; women; son preference; sex; composition; family size; sex ratio; india (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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Journal Article: Fertility Decline and Missing Women (2017)
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