Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Chatterjee, Ishita - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 13 (2020) 3, pp. 561-588
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the motivations behind married men preferring sons and to quantify the association between a couple’s stated son preferences. Son preference is an endemic problem in India. With half a million female foetuses aborted each year, the root causes of son...