05.09.08
Some Asian Americans Choose Sons After Birth of Daughters
A new analysis of the Census shows that U.S. born children with Asian parents increases the chances of having a baby boy if they already have a girl or two.
The findings ‘’suggest that in a sub-population with a traditional son preference, the technologies are being used to generate male births when preceding births are female, says co-authors Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund that appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.