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itself felt on adjacent regions: this proves to be a crucial mechanism to
explain how areas with high sex ratio tend to expand over the years as
can be seen on our maps. But once again, the demographic billionaires
seem rather different on that account because of the respective role of
political structures in China and of larger social and cultural regions in
India.
Figure 6 Change in child sex ratio (0-6 years) in 1991-2001, India, computed
from census district data.
4. Discussion
Several unresolved issues remain about the causes of the sex ratio
differentials observed in these two countries, but it is important to
stress at the outset that the impact of fertility decline on the expression
of son preference is in no way automatic: among early decliners, fertility
decline in many regions caused little impact on the sex composition
of the child population. 7 This is true of several regions of India such as
7 On regional fertility decline in China, see King (2007).