Bhattacharjya, Debarun; Sudarshan, Anant; Tuljapurkar, … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 54, pp. 1831-1850
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...