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Freedman, D., Ronald Freedman, and P.K. Whelpton. 1960. "Size of Family and Preference for Children of Each Sex." American Journal of Sociology, 66(4): 141-46.
Preference for at least one child of each sex has a minor, but significant, influence in determining whether couples with two, there, or four children expect to have and do have an additional child. This relationship was found to persist with a number of socioeconomic and demographic controls. Its importance increases with the number of children of identical sex. The analysis is based on the data from a national probability sample of white married women in the child-bearing years.
DOI:10.1086/222842 (Full Text)
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