Fertility Decline and Missing Women
Published By: BREAD on eSs | Published Date: June, 21 , 2014This
paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex
ratio. Standard survey questions on fertility preferences ask the respondent her
desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have
systematically stronger son preference, which generates bias. This paper instead
elicits desired sex composition at specified, randomly determined, levels of total
fertility. These data allow one to isolate the causal effect of family size on the
desired sex ratio.
Author(s): Seema Jayachandran | Posted on: Jul 01, 2014 | Views(528) | Download (715)