Preference for Boys Does Not Necessarily Lead to a Gender Disbalance: A Realistic Example

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

6-2020

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-65

Abstract

Intuitively, it seems that cultural preference for boys should lead to a gender disbalance -- more boys than girls. This disbalance is indeed what is often observed, and this disbalance is what many models predict. However, in this paper, we show, on a realistic example, that preference for boys does not necessarily lead to a gender disbalance: in our simplified example, boys are clearly preferred, but still there are exactly as many girls as there are boys.