Evidence from most developing countries suggests that parents have a preference for sons over daughters. This is known as son preference. This paper uses individual level unit record data to test the son preference hypothesis in South Africa. We use an accelerated hazard model to estimate the duration betwen successive births and our results indicate that son preference exists only for the Indian community in South Africa.
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