Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated … since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor … incomes and husband's education as well as the falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the demand side, the sectors …

pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their …This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … first-born and uncovers several new findings. First, the share of living women with a first-born girl is a decreasing …