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Text and code for "Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions: India's Experience Over Four Decades," forthcoming in Demography
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1-c Explain why longer interval with sex selection #31

Closed cportner closed 3 years ago

cportner commented 4 years ago

P. 6 regarding sex selection: “The introduction of sex selection allows parents to avoid giving birth to girls but increases the expected interval to the next birth.” The reader needs an explanation here of why sex selection increases birth interval length. The author mentions waiting time to conception and other components in the introduction (and footnote). A clear explanation of this argument needs to be reiterated (or moved) here.

cportner commented 3 years ago

I have removed the footnote in the Introduction and instead expanded the discussion in the Conceptual Framework section to better show how I arrive at the 6--12 months longer spacing.