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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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fertility rates among young women aged 15-34 years. We exploit the fact that countrywide tariff reductions varied across … reduced fertility rate mostly in rural areas. …
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increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …
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during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …
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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …
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Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …
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,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations … suggest that, for every neonatal death, an additional 0.37 children are born, of whom 0.3 survive. -- fertility ; birth …
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This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …
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