The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …

among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …

experimenting with different reference populations. Empirically we find that the overall ranking of poverty in India does not change …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …