Son preference in India results in abortion of female foetuses, and excess female infant mortality due to childhood … neglect. Whether the increased use of abortion will reduce female infant mortality is a matter of debate. Using India …, an increase in the number of abortions will reduce female infant mortality. From a policy perspective, the results call …

abortion or post-natal excess female infant mortality. These victims of daughter aversion are India’s “missing girls … incidence of missing girls due to sex selective abortion and excess female infant mortality by age one for the time period 1950 … mortality to the number of missing girls has reduced while the contribution of sex selective abortion has increased. Policy …

India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region …-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of the total population of India. Altogether, 12 … the first half of 2006. Data from India GYTS 2003 and GYTS 2006 was analyzed to examine the change in different variables …

girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 …

, like India and China, fertility decline may deteriorate the already imbalanced sex-ratios. We use the fertility histories … fertility choices and offspring sex-ratios in India. Both within- and between-family-size differences in offspring sex … fertility decline, together with economic growth, may worsen India's already imbalanced sex-ratios. Thus, much needed fertility …

The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely … general, the low demand for girls has been interpreted as a rational response to economic constraints. This paper shows the … importance of culture both in determining the value of girls and in shaping parental economic constraints. We find that …

A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined. …

absence of certain laws, in fact, accentuate the factors that make girls unwanted, be it laws related to inheritance, dowry … against girls. While attitudes and perceptions need to change to accept daughters equally as sons, this change can be …, harassment or child marriage. Taking action to enhance the social value of girls would therefore mean taking the first few steps …