A comment on fred arnold’s “measuring the effect of sex preference on fertility”

Bibliographic Data

ID11620376
AuthorsRadheshyam Bairagi (Demography Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road, Calcutta 700035, India, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume24
Issue1
Pages137-138
Publication date1987-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2307/2061513
PMID3470212
OpenAlexW1996888310
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

This paper critiques a mathematical measure (Arnolds Measure) of the effect of sex preference on fertility and contraceptive use. The author feels that such an equation gives an underestimate of the effect of sex preference as a result of the presence of heterogeneity in sex preference. In practical situations some heterogeneity in preferences is expected particularly at the higher parities in any population. Rural Bangladesh is an example where preference for sons and preferential treatment of male children is unusually high

Economics · Fertility · Population · Preference · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

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