The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … discernible impact upon property and economic crime. In probing mechanisms we argue that men are more prone to crime than women …

foetal and newborn girls, and on a scale much larger than "dowry deaths" amongst married women which have been the subject of …Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates … period. We also find that surviving girls are shorter. Second, using monthly time series data for 35 years, we again find …

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 …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in … India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 ….8-4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating that the reform encouraged female foeticide. We also find that the reform …