scholarly journals Patrilineality, Son Preference, and Sex Selection in South Korea and Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea den Boer ◽  
Valerie Hudson
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Son Preference

scholarly journals Old Habits Die Hard? Lingering Son Preference in an Era of Normalizing Sex Ratios at Birth in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Hyun Yoo ◽  
Sarah R. Hayford ◽  
Victor Agadjanian
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Son Preference

scholarly journals Sex Selection and Gender Balance

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bhaskar
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Son Preference ◽  
Market Selection ◽  
Excess Supply ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Biased Sex Ratio ◽  
And Gender

We model the equilibrium sex ratio when parents can choose the sex of their child. With intrinsic son preference, sex selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate selection aggravate the inefficiency. If son preference arises endogenously, due to population growth causing an excess supply of women on the marriage market, selection may improve welfare. Empirically, sex selection causes an excess of males and reduces welfare in China. In most parts of India, cohort sizes are growing, implying an excess supply of women. (JEL J12, J13, J16, O15, P23)

Sex-selective abortion in Vietnam during 1999-2009: the first quantitative study at national level

MedPharmRes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Truc Thi Thanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Norm ◽  
National Level ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Son Preference ◽  
National Data ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Female Values

Introduction: The sex ratio at birth has dramatically increased since 1999 in Vietnam and stood at 112.7 boys per 100 girls in 2017. This figure alarms many female fetuses are aborted for sex-selection but the numerical evidence is unknown. To depict an accurate picture about the sex-selective abortion, we conducted a study to analyze the national data for sex-abortion in Vietnam. Methods: To estimate the number of sex-selective abortions between 1999 and 2009, the 2009 Census and 1999 Life table of Vietnam were adopted. We calculated the actual number of female and male births for ten years using the reverse survival method. Then the number of sex-selective abortions was the gap between the expected and actual numbers of female births. Results: There was 217,902 sex-selective abortions, which accounted for 11.8% of all causes of abortion in Vietnam from 1999 to 2009. The number of sex-selective abortions was nearly double from 74,179 in 1999-2004 to 143,723 in 2005-2009, even the national punishments on sex-selective abortion were launched since 2003. Conclusions: Female fetuses are more likely aborted before birth for sex-selection in Vietnam because of the son preference. In the situation of Vietnam, changing the social norm regarding female values and roles in both family and society is the key solution to end this problem.

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