pre-marriage couples` fertility attitude following recent childbearing persuasive policies in iran farrokh-eslamlou hr , vahabzadeh z *, moeini sr ,moghaddam tabrizi f received: 5 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013 abstract background & aims: following a phenomenal fertility decline during recent two decades in iran, the childbearing persuasive policy has been implemented. the goals of this stu...

Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials child mortality, and worse educational investments daughters versus sons. In present study, we show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women childbearing age, bias stated fertility preferences weake...

This article investigates parental investments in single-child households. It shows that son preference triggers more parental investments in children and its effects are stronger on investments in sons. A rise in the sex ratio creates a marriage market squeeze. It, however, has ambiguous effects on investments in children, which depends on how strong these investments are as measures for influ...

Child sex ratio has been declining over a period of time. Preference for male child by the family leading to selective abortion is found be major factor which may have adverse impact on social structure. The evil female feticide and infanticide can eradicated only when we identify reasons gender preference recognize importance women in their life. baby reflects underlying socioeconomic cultural...

In the present study, the desired family size and preference for son and their socio-economic and demographic determinants were studied among rural populations of West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The data were collected from 214 respondents from the rural area of West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. The mean desirable number of children is 2.5. More than half of the responden...