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breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …
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. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender …
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …
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India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …
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This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination …
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India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth … if he is the eldest son. Third, the India-Africa height deficit is largest for daughters with no older brothers, which …
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