Gender 'Rebalancing' in China

Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod

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Gender 'Rebalancing' in China

Date

2014

Authors

Golley, Jane

Tyers, Rod

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social consequences, including excessive savings as families with boys compete to match their sons with girls who are scarce and rising rates of crime