On the Tradeoff between Cultural Sensitivity and Aggregate Size in Population Control Policy

Recently, Batabyal (2003) has suggested an unconventional population control policy that is sensitive to the cultural desire for male progeny in many Asian nations. Although Batabyal's (2003) suggested policy is culturally sensitive, a potential difficulty with this policy is that the total size of the national population that is sought to be controlled may be quite high. Therefore, in this note we address the tradeoff between cultural sensitivity and total population size. In particular, we study the attributes of a modified policy that is desirable not only because it is culturally sensitive but also because it caps the total size of individual families and thereby the size of the national population