Sex differentials in infant mortality vary widely across nations. Because newborn girls are biologically advantaged in surviving to their first birthday, sex differentials in infant mortality typically arise from genetic factors that result in higher male infant mortality rates. Nonetheless,...

The goal of this research is to examine the role of "modernization" (i.e., structural conduciveness) in the form of income, telephone price and structure, education, and political structures, and "global contact" in the form of world cities, trade, investment, activities of international...