Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off
研究印度Devi Rupak项目发现，财政激励虽能降低生育率，但无法改善出生性别比，因为偏好儿子的家庭不愿因更高补贴而放弃生儿子。
Can financial incentives resolve the fertility-sex ratio trade-off faced by countries with persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology? An Indian program, Devi Rupak, that seeks to lower fertility and the sex ratio is unable to do so. Although fertility decreases, the sex ratio at birth worsens as high son preference families are unwilling to forgo a son despite substantially higher benefits for a daughter. Thus, financial incentives may only play a limited role in the resolution of the fertility-sex ratio conflict.