Friday, September 2 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Room P 5

Session 77:
Gender, fertility and sex preferences

Chair: Ismet Koc, Hacettepe University

  1. Parents’ preferences for the sex of their children in Sweden: attitudes and behavior • Vitor F. Miranda, Stockholm University ; Johan Dahlberg, Stockholm University ; Gunnar Andersson, Stockholm University

  2. Emerging gender revolution in Nigeria: implications for timing of family formation and fertility behaviour • Onipede Wusu, Lagos State University ; Olaide A. Adedokun, Lagos State University

  3. Sex preferences for children among foreign-born mothers in Sweden • Eleonora Mussino, Stockholm University ; Vitor F. Miranda, Stockholm University ; Li Ma, Stockholm University

  4. Does prenatal sex selection substitute postnatal excess female child mortality? • Ridhi Kashyap, University of Oxford and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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