fertility pressures on women, which favored late female marriages already in the pre-industrial era. The resulting family and … household patterns placed women into a better position to struggle for more gender equality during the subsequent transitions …-condition predict differences in pre-industrial female marriage ages, which in turn explain differences in gender equality today. The …

schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative …

schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …

the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms through which inequality between men and women affects the aggregate … economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …

Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …

Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …