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
The most critical issue about your paper is that, contrary to our standards and our instructions for authors, it contains no table and no graph. Instead, we want them: simple, clear and, of course, relevant. In your case, this lack is particularly unfortunate, because you are comparing periods (not always clear which ones), and you assume that everybody knows everything: e.g., fertility levels and trends, or changes over time of birth intervals, or probabilities of further children depending on the sex of the first one(s), evolution of sex ratio at birth in India (and neighbouring countries, eg. China?)
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2 years ago 
The most critical issue about your paper is that, contrary to our standards and our instructions for authors, it contains no table and no graph. Instead, we want them: simple, clear and, of course, relevant. In your case, this lack is particularly unfortunate, because you are comparing periods (not always clear which ones), and you assume that everybody knows everything: e.g., fertility levels and trends, or changes over time of birth intervals, or probabilities of further children depending on the sex of the first one(s), evolution of sex ratio at birth in India (and neighbouring countries, eg. China?)