policies upholding the patriarchal family system. Finally, the authors hypothesize that child sex ratios in China and India …

Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women … lengthening in spacing, the standard fertility rates substantially overestimated how fast cohort fertility fell. Despite a … convergence, cohort fertility is still 10%–20% higher than the fertility rate and above replacement level for all but the best …

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …