The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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 …

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