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Missing women in the United Kingdom

Published:2013-06-25 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:
ISSN:2193-9039
Container-title:IZA Journal of Migration
language:en
Short-container-title:IZA J Migration

Author:

Adamou Adamos,Drakos Christina,Iyer Sriya

Abstract

Abstract Abstract This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic characteristics. Our key result is that better-educated immigrants balance their family after the birth of two sons, by having a daughter thereafter. Our study also is the first to estimate the number of missing women among Asian immigrants in a European country, contributing to research on the US and Canada that missing women are also a phenomenon of the developed world. JEL codes J13, J15, O52, Z13

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,Demography

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/2193-9039-2-10.pdf

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