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 …

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 …

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. …

during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

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 …