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 …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 … increased excess female infant mortality and son-biased fertility stopping. This suggests that the inheritance reform raised the … costs of having daughters, consistent with which we document an increase in stated son preference in fertility post …

mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available …. Information on sterilization is used to identify an equation for completion of family formation that is needed to account for …