@article{PAR00005745,
  title = {{T}he sex ratio transition in {A}sia},
  author = {{G}uilmoto, {C}hristophe},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his article adopts a comparative perspective to review the recent increase in the sex ratio at birth ({SRB}) across {A}sia. {I}t first describes and compares the most recent birth statistics in {A}sia in order to identify commonalities in the gradual rise of {SRB}s observed from {A}rmenia to {S}outh {K}orea. {T}his comparison provides the basis for identifying specific transition patterns in the changes in {SRB}s. {T}heir recent rise is then interpreted in a social and historical framework borrowed from fertility decline and based on three preconditions: access to sex-selection technology, preference for male births, and pressure from low fertility. {O}n a broader plane, the process of growing imbalances in the sex composition of the population gives rise to a tragedy of the commons. {T}his article indicates the factors that appear most likely to trigger a turnaround in this transitional demographic situation and to facilitate a return to biologically normal

sex ratios in the future.},
  keywords = {{ASIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{P}opulation and {D}evelopment {R}eview},
  volume = {35},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {519--549},
  ISSN = {0098-7921},
  year = {2009},
  DOI = {10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00295.x},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00005745},
}