Essays about: "preference for sons"

Found 4 essays containing the words preference for sons.

  1. 1. Brides For Sale : A Qualitative Analysis of Missing Women, Skewed Sex Ratios and Bride Trafficking in Haryana, Northern India

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Åsa Lindén-Tunhult; [2021]
    Keywords : Development; population control; sex selective abortion; preference for sons; missing women; skewed sex ratios; bachelors; bride trafficking; marriage patterns;

    Abstract : Population control programs such as family planning and the introduction of sex identification technologies has helped to create skewed sex ratios in northern India and particularly in the state of Haryana. Due to a surplus of men and the numbers of missing females, an organized business of bride trafficking has emerged where poor women from eastern and northeastern states of India are bought and brought to Haryana for the purpose of marriage. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Cultured and Happy Family: A Minor Field Study on the Correlation Between the Implementation of the Vietnamese Family Planning Policy and the Prevalence of Son Preference

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Public International Law; Mänskliga Rättigheter; Human Rights Law; Vietnam.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Vietnam har sedan den socialistiska revolutionen på mitten av 1900-tlaet arbetat aktivt för jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män. Sedan 1982 är Vietnam part till Konventionen om avskaffande av all slags diskriminering av kvinnor (CEDAW). READ MORE

  4. 3. Son Preference and Second Birth in China

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Wenhua Zhang; [2011]
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    Abstract : Preference for bearing sons is a common social custom and cultural tradition in China. In 1979, China installed the stringent one-child policy which firmly controls second and higher order birth, although with a few exceptions which allow couples to have two children. READ MORE

  5. 4. Analyzing the Effect of Family Size on Parental Health Production - Evidence from Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Hilda Ralsmark; [2008]
    Keywords : Indonesia; fertility; Quantity-Quality model; Grossman model; health production; blood pressure; family size; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The most famous theory of family economics is probably Gary Becker’s Quantity-Quality model. Assuming scarce parental resources, it predicts a negative relationship between family size and adult success. The model assumes that parents have common preferences and that income pooling takes place. READ MORE