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
Beyond that, the general message of your article is unclear to us. Your only concern about sex-selective abortion seems to be about birth intervals (even your original title focused only on this - but we suggest that you change both contents and title) and the use that scholars should make of them. However, laypersons are (correctly) impressed by sex-selective abortions for different reasons (e.g. as indicators of backwardness, measures of the need for female empowerment in India, and possible causes of distortion in the marriage market in the future), which are not even mentioned in your article.
cportner
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2 years ago 
Beyond that, the general message of your article is unclear to us. Your only concern about sex-selective abortion seems to be about birth intervals (even your original title focused only on this - but we suggest that you change both contents and title) and the use that scholars should make of them. However, laypersons are (correctly) impressed by sex-selective abortions for different reasons (e.g. as indicators of backwardness, measures of the need for female empowerment in India, and possible causes of distortion in the marriage market in the future), which are not even mentioned in your article.