Over the past quarter century the sex ratio at birth (SRB) has risen above natural levels in a
number of countries, mostly in Asia. This rise has been made possible in populations with …

Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) show that parental preference for
sons persists in some countries but may be declining in others. The most common …

Throughout recorded history, humans have tried to influence the sex of their offspring,
through pregnancy injunctions, infanticide, and infant/child neglect. Reproductive …

PIP: This paper addresses the issue of whether the prevalence of a strong desire for children
of a particular sex would be a significant obstacle to the success of family planning programs …

This chapter considers the factors influencing population birth sex ratios and variations of
the sex ratio within populations, together with adaptive interpretations of these effects and …

Background Fewer girls than boys are born in India. Various hypotheses have been
proposed to explain this low sex ratio. Our aim was to ascertain the contribution of prenatal …

Provisional estimates from the 2001 census of India, which showed unusually high sex
ratios for young children, have sparked renewed concern about the growing use of sex …

Although the effect of son preference on sex composition of children ever born is
undetectable in national-level estimates that aggregate across all families, this article …

This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex
diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across …

In the absence of manipulation, both the sex ratio at birth and the population sex ratio are
remarkably constant in human populations. Small alterations do occur naturally; for …