Changes in Sex Ratio at Birth Among Immigrant Groups in Sweden

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Date 2018 Sep 22

PMID 30237588

Citations 9

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Eleonora Mussino

Vitor Miranda

Li Ma

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Abstract

What happens when citizens from societies with strong son preference culture migrate to countries in which preference for having a child of each sex prevails? Using data from Swedish population registers, we investigate the sex ratio at birth by parity and the sex composition of previous children in Sweden. Our results showed that women with Chinese, Korean, and Indian background had a substantially elevated sex ratio at the third parity if previous children were both girls. Strikingly, this skewed ratio became less pronounced after 2000, suggesting a shift for a more neutral sex preference for children among these groups in the new century.

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