“Daughter-Only” Families in Selected High and Low Son Preference States in India: A Comparative Analysis

Sahoo, Harihar; Nagarajan, R.

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“…Socioeconomic development, with women's education and employment, urbanization, and a rise in the standard of living is typically associated with lower gender bias (Asadullah et al. 2021; Chun and Das Gupta 2021; Drèze and Murthi 2001; Klasen and Wink 2003; Sahoo and Nagarajan 2020). Compiling data from different parts of the world, Klasen and Wink (2003) find that women's education and labor force participation have had the biggest effect in reducing gender bias and improving sex ratios.…”

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A Girl and a Boy, Are a Bundle of Joy: A Rise in Gender‐Equitable Fertility Preferences in India

Bhatnagar

2023

Studies in Family Planning

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Within the last decade, declining son preference in Asia has given rise to gender‐equitable fertility preferences. These include daughter preference, gender indifference, and gender balance. Using five rounds of the India National Family Health Surveys, I investigate the sources of the trends in shifting parental preferences for the gender of their children. Over more than a quarter‐century period (1992–1993 to 2019–2021), I find a significant decline in son preference from 40 to 18 percent and an increase in gender‐equitable preferences among most subpopulations. Multivariate analysis shows that for all survey years, education and frequent exposure to television significantly increased the odds of gender‐equitable preferences. In the last decade, community norms supporting women's employment are also associated with gender‐equitable preferences. In addition, decomposition analysis shows that compared to compositional change, social norm change accounts for two‐thirds of the rise in gender‐equitable preferences. These findings suggest that rising norms of gender equality have the potential to dismantle gender‐biased preferences in India.

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A Girl and a Boy, Are a Bundle of Joy: A Rise in Gender‐Equitable Fertility Preferences in India

Bhatnagar

2023

Studies in Family Planning

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“…Since then, gender preference at birth has been well documented in developing countries (Das Gupta 2005;Attané and Guilmoto 2007;Guilmoto 2009), especially in the Asian countries of Korea (Park and Cho 1995), China (Guilmoto 2012a), Indonesia (Guilmoto 2015), Vietnam (Guilmoto et al 2009;Guilmoto 2012b) and India (Das Gupta and Bhat 1997;Sudha and Rajan 1999;Arnold, Kishor, and Roy 2002;Sekher and Hatti 2010;Diamond-Smith and Bishai, 2015;Kulkarni, 2020). Nevertheless, the topic continues to be a high priority research among the scholars across countries (Bongaarts and Guilmoto 2015;Guilmoto et al, 2018;Becquet, Guilmoto, and Dutreuilh, 2018;Sahoo and Nagarajan, 2020;Guilmoto, Chao, and Kulkarni, 2020;Chao et al 2019;Tafuro and Guilmoto 2020). Moreover, a recent systematic assessment of sex ratio at birth (SRB) for all countries presents an evidence of SRB as further skewed in favour of males in Asia (Chao et al 2019).…”

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Skewed child sex ratios in India: a revisit to geographical patterns and socio-economic correlates

Kumari

Goli

2021

J Pop Research

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This study revisits the regional and socio-economic pattern of masculinisation of Child Sex Ratios (CSR), Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) and Sex Ratio at Last Birth (SRLB) by using the successive rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Although the masculinisation of CSR continues in many Indian states as well as in different socio-economic settings, a tremendous change in previously established patterns of CSR can be observed from the findings. District-level analysis presents an intra-state variation in CSR, SRB and SRLB, which helps in identifying the emerging 'hotspots' of the problem. The decline in preference for a son and rise in skewed CSR, SRB and SRLB invites the attention of researchers towards drawbacks in the method of measurement of preference for a son as people are now more aware of the legal consequences of sex-selective abortions and underreport the same.

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Deconstructing the sex gap in child undernutrition in India: Are Indian boys at elevated risk of anthropometric failure than the girls?

Ghosh

2024

American J Hum Biol

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Backgrounds & ObjectivesThe privileging of boys in immunization coverage, breastfeeding, and other child care practices in Indian patriarchal society raises questions about whether there are sex differences in the prevalence of undernutrition among children. This study evaluates the sex gap in the prevalence of Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) among Indian children from 2015–16 to 2019–21. Additionally, it seeks to identify the sex‐specific determinants and persistent sex gap at national and subnational levels (social, economic, religious, and geopolitical regions) in anthropometric failure among the children from 2015–16 to 2019–21.Materials and MethodsThe study utilizes the 4th (2015–16) and 5th (2019–21) rounds of the National Family Health Survey data. Logistic regression models and the Fairlie decomposition technique were employed to explore the persistent and significant sex gap in the prevalence of CIAF, as well as the sex‐specific determinants of CIAF among children in 2015–16 and 2019–21.ResultsThe study reveals a significant sex gap (approximately 4%‐points), with boy's disadvantage in the prevalence of CIAF from 2015–16 to 2019–21 at both the national and subnational levels (social, religious, socioeconomic groups, and geopolitical regions). The gap is more pronounced in the first year of life and decreases in later stages. A comparatively faster CIAF decline among girls from 2016 to 2021 has widened the sex gap in final year than the previous. Child, mother, household, community, and geographic backgrounds explains about 5%–6% of the sex gap in the prevalence of CIAF from 2015–16 to 2019–21. The remaining 94%–95% of the unexplained sex gap may be attributed to biological factors or other factors. Currently, a heightened boy's disadvantage in CIAF risk is observed in ST community, wealthiest families, and the northern India.ConclusionThe findings suggest a special attention for boys under 3 years to offset biological disadvantages like greater disease sensitivity and fragility compared to girls early on.

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“Daughter-Only” Families in Selected High and Low Son Preference States in India: A Comparative Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

A Girl and a Boy, Are a Bundle of Joy: A Rise in Gender‐Equitable Fertility Preferences in India

A Girl and a Boy, Are a Bundle of Joy: A Rise in Gender‐Equitable Fertility Preferences in India

Skewed child sex ratios in India: a revisit to geographical patterns and socio-economic correlates

Deconstructing the sex gap in child undernutrition in India: Are Indian boys at elevated risk of anthropometric failure than the girls?

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