Skip to content
  • #
  • About N-IUSSP
    • Our History
    • Editorial Commettee
    • Authors
  • Featured
    • eBooks
    • Graphics
    • Video
  • Write for us
  • Newsletter
  • Contacts
N-IUSSP
World population
N-IUSSP
  • About N-IUSSP
  • Topics
    • Fertility and reproduction
    • Families and households
    • Mobility, migration and foreigners
    • Health and mortality
    • Individual and population ageing, age structure
    • Environment and development
    • Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)
    • Gender issues
  • Featured
    • Graphics
    • Video
  • Contacts
  • Newsletter
  • Write for us
  • Education • work • economy
  • Environment • development
  • Families • households
  • Fertility • reproduction
  • Gender issues
  • Health • mortality
  • population ageing • age structure
  • Mobility • migration • foreigners

sex-selection

Fertility and reproduction

Sex-selective abortion in India: an ongoing problem

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Claus C. Pörtner
Asia, Children, Family, Fertility, India, sex-selection

In India, the percentage of male births has increased since the mid-1980s. Claus Pörtner ties the continuously growing use of prenatal sex selection to India’s falling fertility among highly-educated women. … Read more

Edited by
Associazione Neodemos
via A. Baldesi 18-20
50131 Firenze

Privacy Policy

Latest posts

  • Children and (unequal) sharing of housework between partners in Hungary
  • Health before and after union dissolution among mothers, fathers and children
  • Labour force participation among older adults in India
  • Late-career employment trajectories and postretirement mortality among Italian retirees

Credits

Caterina Livi Bacci
Editing - graphics - web design

Filippo Bonechi & Francesco Cipriani
Web developer - database project

© 2023 N-IUSSP - ISSN 2704-7067