On the estimation of female births missing due to prenatal sex selection.
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This research note is prompted by a paper by Kashyap (Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality? Population Studies 73(1): 57-78). Kashyap's paper, which provides 40 original estimates of missing female births, relies on an alternative definition of missing female births, leading to estimates of about half the magnitude of other estimates. There appears, therefore, a real need to take stock of the concept of missing female births widely used by statisticians around the world for assessing the demographic consequences of prenatal sex selection. This research note starts with a brief review of the history of the concept and the difference between Amartya Sen's original method and the alternative method found elsewhere to compute missing female births. We then put forward three different arguments (deterministic and probabilistic approaches, and consistency analysis) in support of the original computation procedure based on the number of observed male births and the expected sex ratio at birth.Citation
Guilmoto, C. Z., Chao, F., & Kulkarni, P. M. (2020). On the estimation of female births missing due to prenatal sex selection. Population Studies, 74(2), 283–289. doi:10.1080/00324728.2020.1762912Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Population studiesPubMed ID
32489140Additional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2020.1762912ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/00324728.2020.1762912
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