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- Son preference and missing girls in Asia: What drives it . . .
Broader social changes that reduce sex-selection 1 Urbanization: • Live and work in impersonal settings (apartments, offices) ̶not surrounded by patrilineage kin pressure • Daughter OR son may live near parents and help them Girls can be as valuable as boys 2 Industrialization: • Access to income de -linked from lineage membership
- Declining son preference in the US - CEPR
In light of more recent data, this column presents new evidence that the preference for sons appears to have declined in the US Having a female first child continues to increase the likelihood of a family’s living without a father, but is now associated with lower fertility over time
- Old Habits Die Hard? Lingering Son Preference in an Era of . . .
Research on the decline in son preference emphasizes macrosocial changes Early declines in son preference in Korea were primarily attributable to large-scale social change rather than increases in education or autonomy for individual women (Chung and Das Gupta 2007)
- Asian Son Preference Will Have Severe Social Consequences . . .
HYDERABAD, India UNITED NATIONS, New York — Prenatal son selection in several Asian countries is likely to have severe social consequences in coming years, according to a new series of studies commissioned by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
- Regional Difference in Changing Son Preference Attitudes in . . .
The analysis of intra-cohort dynamics reveals three distinct trends in son preference attitudes: stable (insignificant slope), increasing (significant positive slope), and decreasing (significant negative slope), as defined by slope estimates from age-by-period interactions
- Son preference and the demographic transition - Aksan - 2022 . . .
Son preference is partially endogenized to reflect how relative scarcity of females raises their value even while social norms and lack of economic opportunities lessen their value These competing factors lead to an oscillating sex ratio
- How Do Public Pensions Affect Eldercare Mode and Son . . .
How do public pension schemes reshape eldercare and social norms with son preference? Using variations in the timing of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) across rural Chinese counties, we examine its effects on eldercare mode, child investment, and son preference
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