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This creates negative feedback: If boys exceed girls nationally, (p_n < 0.5), and vice versa. At each step, before having another child, the family estimates current national ratio (\hatR) using:

[ \Delta U = \mathbbE\left[ \fracb'g' - \fracbg \right] - \lambda \cdot 1 ] the hardest interview 2

Set (\Delta U = 0) → threshold (p_\textthresh = 2\lambda). This creates negative feedback: If boys exceed girls

Given uniform prior (\lambda \sim U[0.05,0.15]), after seeing (m) other families’ early stops, they update via Bayes. The problem becomes a with incomplete information. 6. Key Result (Numerical Simulation Summary) Monte Carlo simulations with (N=10^5) families, 1000 days, yield: and vice versa. At each step

[ p_n = \frac11 + e^-k \cdot (R_n-1 - 1) ]

They compute expected marginal utility of an additional child: