IDEV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sex Selection, Infant Mortality, Male Privilege

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Sex selection and infanticide in favour of sons, has reached cohorts in their 20s and 30s. China: estimated 35 and 40 million unmarried men who are "forced" bachelors. That number is projected to reach 55 million by 2020. In haryana, 1/4 men unable to find brides. A well-known feature of demographic trends in several east and south. Number of expected daughters and the number born or alive in a certain age group. The sex ratio at birth that should prevail in the absence of interference: 953 females per 1000 males. The relationship between male and female infant mortality in the absence of interference. Child sex ratio is regularly found in northern india. Shows that the indian population sex ratio increased from 933 in 2001 to. 940 in 2011 after reaching a low of 927 in 1991. Not simply a manifestation of son preference but an overcome of the intensification of daughter aversion.

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