Fertility decline, driven by the one-child policy, and son preference have contributed to an alarming difference in the number of live male and female births in China. We present a quantitative model where people choose to sex-select because they perceive that married sons are more valuable than...

An influence diagram is a network representation of probabilistic inference and decision analysis models. The nodes correspond to variables that can be either constants, uncertain quantities, decisions, or objectives. The arcs reveal probabilistic dependence of the uncertain quantities and...