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This paper investigates whether heterogeneous subgroups of female-headed households are worse off than traditional households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique panel data of over 4000 rural households from...
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Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …
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Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …
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the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms through which inequality between men and women affects the aggregate … economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …
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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …
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