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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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Financial incentives and fertility choices : evidence from India
Chatterjee, Tirtha; Jain, Ritika - In: The Indian economic journal 71 (2023) 4, pp. 673-688
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Democracy and demography : societal effects of fertility limits on local leaders
Anukriti, S; Chakravarty, Abhishek - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 54 (2019) 1, pp. 79-121
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Why are adult women missing? : son preference and maternal survival in India
Milazzo, Annamaria - In: Journal of development economics 134 (2018), pp. 467-484
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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - 2018
In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
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Why Is Son Preference Declining In South Korea ? : The Role of Development And Public Policy, And The Implications For China And India
Chung, Woojin - 2007
policies upholding the patriarchal family system. Finally, the authors hypothesize that child sex ratios in China and India …
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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 35 (2020) 1, pp. 87-121
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Girls for sale? : child sex ratio and girl trafficking in India
Prakash, Nishith; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - In: Feminist economics 25 (2019) 4, pp. 267-308
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Daughters, dowries, deliveries : the effect of marital payments on fertility choices in India
Alfano, Marco - In: Journal of development economics 125 (2017), pp. 89-104
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The effect of natural disaster on fertility, birth spacing, and child sex ratio : evidence from a major earthquake in India
Nandi, Arindam; Mazumdar, Sumit; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of population economics 31 (2018) 1, pp. 267-293
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