@techreport{fdi:010087290,
  title = {{T}he sex ratio transition in {A}sia},
  author = {{G}uilmoto, {C}hristophe {Z}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he paper adopts a comparative perspective to review the recent increase in sex ratio at birth across {A}sia. {W}e first describe and compare the most recent birth statistics in {A}sia in order to identify commonalities in the gradual demographic masculinization observed from {A}rmenia to {S}outh {K}orea. {T}his comparison provides the basis for identifying the specific transitional patterns of current trends in birth masculinity. {T}he recent rise in sex ratio at birth is then interpreted in a socio-historical framework borrowed from fertility decline and based on three preconditions: access to sex selection technology, gender preference, and pressure from low fertility. {O}n a broader plane, the process of growing gender imbalances closely resembles that of a tragedy of the commons and this paper indicates the factors that appear most likely to trigger a turnaround in this transitional cycle and to facilitate a return to normal in the future.},
  keywords = {{ASIE} ; {CHINE} ; {INDE} ; {TAIWAN} ; {SINGAPOUR} ; {VIET} {NAM} ; {PAKISTAN} ; {ARMENIE} ; {AZERBAIDJAN} ; {GEORGIE} ; {ALBANIE} ; {COREE} {DU} {SUD}},
  address = {{P}aris},
  publisher = {{CEPED}},
  series = {{W}orking {P}apers du {CEPED}},
  pages = {34  multigr.},
  year = {2009},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087290},
}