More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the …

, and Southeast Asia, Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America), the effect of women's employment on reported domestic … violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women …, these results turn out to be the opposite, which suggests that women's employment status has a negative influence on …

developing world by defining the term "missing women" and estimating its number. In this paper we provide an update on the number … of missing women based on most recent demographic data. Our preferred estimate suggests that the number of missing women … (in particular women's education and women's employment) have improved in most regions and contributed to the relative …