apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women … reference standard for sex-specific mortality from rich countries that is inappropriately applied to settings in developing …

parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …

world. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some … authors, fertility decline has not generally led to an intensification of gender bias in mortality. Second, the paper finds …. -- Missing women ; fertility decline ; Hepatitis B ; sex-selective abortions ; gender bias in mortality …