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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's"missing girls" phenomenon?
Das Gupta, Monica; Chung, Woojin; Li, Shuzhuo - 2009
"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821122
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Family systems, political systems, and Asia's "missing girls" : the construction of son preference and its unraveling
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918622
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Does hepatitis B infection or son preference explain the bulk of gender imbalance in China? : a review of the evidence
Das Gupta, Monica (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003707115
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“Missing girls” in the south Caucasus countries : trends, possible causes, and policy options
Das Gupta, Monica - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513344
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Why are adult women missing? : son preference and maternal survival in India
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2014
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Sex-selective abortions, fertility, and birth spacing
Pörtner, Claus Chr. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477957
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Gender bias in China, the Republic of Korea, and India 1920 - 90 : effects of war, famine, and fertility decline
Das Gupta, Monica; Li, Shuzhuo - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001405383
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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - 2018
reform to promote gender equity and advocacy efforts, offer more promise by bringing about permanent shifts in the relative …
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