Son Preference
Culture, fertility, and son preference
... Conversely, higher costs for girls lead to a ‘big brother effect’, contrary to what is observed in the data. As my theoretical model demonstrates, if girls are more costly, women having girls are poorer, all else equal. ...
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Factors Affecting Son Preference Phenomenon and Women Familial Status in Pakistan
... a son grows young, he is more attached with the mother than the ...a son is not only from a husband or his family only; but also from a ...a son. Thus son preference is the only ...
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Economics and Sociology of Son Preference in India
... Socio-cultural norms, beliefs, traditions, rituals and customs are the major causes of son preference over daughters in India. Female infanticide has a long tradition in India. In the nineteenth century the ...
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Religion and Son Preference in India and Bangladesh: Three Essays on Comparing Hindus and Muslims on Son Preference and Sex Differentials in Child Health
... influences son preferences by comparing Hindu-majority and Muslim-minority India with Muslim-majority and Hindu-minority ...for son preference among Muslims. In India, Hindus exhibit son ...
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Impact of different demographic and socio economic factors on son preference in Manipur, India
... of son preference. However, both the age groups in favour of son preferences as more than 60 percent of these categories in favour of a family having at least one ...between son ...
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Sex selective abortions and infant mortality in India: the role of parents’ stated son preference
... a preference for sons should use sex-selective abortion as their first choice method of implementing their ...stated son preference, either alone or in conjunction with his ...
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Impact of Son Preference on Fertility Indices in ManipurDilip C. Nath and H. Brojeshwor Singh
... The two response variables are taken – i) fertility, which is defined by the actual number of live birth and ii) third birth transition, quantified to be 1, if the mother has at least third live birth and 0, otherwise. ...
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Effects of birth order and son preference on utilization of pre- and post-natal health inputs in Punjab
... and son preference on receiving prenatal, delivery care, and postnatal child health inputs, using cross-sectional data collected by the Multiple Cluster Indicators Study Punjab related to year 2011 from all ...
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Mothers in law and son preference in India
... son preference. While ideally, we would include in the model the preference of all of the above, data limitation preclude us from doing ...stated son preferences in another paper and we have ...
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Culture, fertility, and son preference
... Conversely, higher costs for girls lead to a ‘big brother effect’, contrary to what is observed in the data. As my theoretical model demonstrates, if girls are more costly, women having girls are poorer, all else equal. ...
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Son Preference and Human Capital
... gender preference) is deeply rooted in countries with a large fraction of its population depends on agriculture for its livelihood, in patrilineal societies and cultures with a tradition of ancestor worship, and ...
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‘Ultramodern contraception’ re examined: cultural dissent, or son preference?
... Thirdly, contraceptive choice is conceptualized in static terms, ignoring the possibility of shifts in preferences over different phases of the reproductive life cycle. In particular, Basu (2005) does not consider the ...
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Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?
... which son preference may cause this sample to be endogenously ...First, son preference may lead to sex-selective abortion, which may lead to a lower proportion of girls at ...Second, ...
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Child Sex Ratio In The North Eastern Region Of India: A State-Wise Comparison
... the son preference as the basic and strong socio-economic and cultural factor of unbalanced child sex ratio in some states of ...Strong son preference was found in both rural and urban areas ...
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Volume 19 - Article 54 | Pages 1831–1850
... Even though socio-economic factors are very different in India, China and Korea, the common factor driving son preference in all three countries is believed to be a rigid patri- lineal kinship system (Das ...
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Are mothers of sons more traditional? The influence of having son(s) and daughter(s) on parents’ gender ideology
... Son preference and traditional patriarchal family structures make Chinese families pay more attention to the ...and son—the so-called “A woman is to obey her father before marriage, her husband ...
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Changes in sex ratio at birth among immigrant groups in Sweden
... strong son-preference norms were combined with exten- sive access to ultrasonography, a technology that can determine the sex of the fetus (Bongaarts ...
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Volume 36 - Article 52 | Pages 1601–1636
... of son preference in India is driven by a combination of interrelated and mutually reinforcing sociocultural and economic ...reinforce preference for sons because families do not expect to benefit ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5382870.pdf
... The fact that we rely on two-tailed significance tests, when our hypotheses are clearly linked to having more sons, means that the significance tests are conservative, i.e., the estimated standard errors are exaggerated. ...
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
... It is widely acknowledged that parental preferences for the sex of their children exist (e.g., Ben-Porath and Welch, 1976, 1980; Behrman, 1988; Behrman et al., 1986; Leung, 1988). This topic has triggered a significant ...
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