CONSEQUENCES OF SON PREFERENCE IN A LOW-FERTILITY SOCIETY - IMBALANCE OF THE SEX-RATIO AT BIRTH IN KOREA
CONSEQUENCES OF SON PREFERENCE IN A LOW-FERTILITY SOCIETY - IMBALANCE OF THE SEX-RATIO AT BIRTH IN KOREA
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DOI：
10.2307/2137413
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发表时间：
1995-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
CHO, NH
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作者：
PARK, CB;CHO, NH
许多人口统计学家和人口规划者认为，亚洲国家重男轻女是降低生育率的主要障碍。然而，其中一些国家，如韩国和中国，尽管强烈坚持重男轻女，但最近已达到了生育率的更替水平。通过使用性别选择性堕胎和其他手段，这些国家的出生性别比在三个层面上发生了变化：总体人口、家庭之间和家庭内部。在人口水平上，性别比例不断上升；在家庭间水平上，性别比例与家庭规模呈反比关系；在家庭内部，随着出生顺序，性别比迅速上升。本文提出了这些变化的经验证据，并讨论了其影响，重点是韩国的情况。
Many demographers and population planners have considered son preference in Asian countries to be a major barrier to reducing fertility. Some of these countries, such as South Korea and China, however, have recently achieved replacement-level fertility, in spite of their strong adherence to son preference. By use of sex-selective abortion and other means, the sex ratio at birth in these countries has been changed at three levels: in the population at large, between families, and within families. At the population level a rising sex ratio has been recorded; at the between-family level an inverse relationship between sex ratio and family size has been observed; and at the within-family level a rapidly rising sex ratio with birth order has been noted. This article presents empirical evidence of these changes and discusses their implications, focusing on the situation in Korea.