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 …

developing world by defining the term "missing women" and estimating its number. In this paper we provide an update on the number … (in particular women's education and women's employment) have improved in most regions and contributed to the relative … gender bias in mortality in China and India …