10.17889/E110799V1
Anukriti, S
Replication data for: Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2017
10.1257/app.20150234
10.1257/app.20150234
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Can financial incentives resolve the fertility-sex ratio trade-off faced by countries with persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology? An Indian program, Devi Rupak, that seeks to lower fertility and the sex ratio is unable to do so. Although fertility decreases, the sex ratio at birth worsens as high son preference families are unwilling to forgo a son despite substantially higher benefits for a daughter. Thus, financial incentives may only play a limited role in the resolution of the fertility-sex ratio conflict.