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Where have all the young girls gone? : identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - 2010
sex diagnosis ; ultrasound ; gender ; India ; triple difference estimator ; differences in differences …
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
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Tackling Daughter Deficits in Tamil Nadu, India
Bedi, Arjun S.; Srinivasan, Sharada - 2008
A well-known demographic feature in several East and South Asian countries is the continuing decline in the proportion of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon. However, analysis of the 2001 Census shows that some of...
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Does current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different educational groups?
Kalabichina, Irina E.; Tyndik, Alla - 2014
educational groups. Authors use qualitative and quantitative data. Quantitative data for this analysis come from the Gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386116
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Sociodemographic disparities in Czech cohesion regions after 1990
Šotkovský, Ivan - 2010
The article is deal with the sociodemographic differences between Czech cohesion regions for the last teenty years and more. There are drew up the basic Czech population and spatial regions differencess in the preface. The spatial hierarchy of the cohesion regions is completed about its eight...
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Implications of declining sex ratio in Indiaʹs population
Mitra, Asok - 1979
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Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men
Hvistendahl, Mara - 2011 - 1. ed.
Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 … China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches …
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Identity Theft : Does the Risk Vary with Demographics?
Anderson, Keith B. - 2005
This paper examines whether the likelihood that an individual will experience identity theft varies with the individual's demographic characteristics, using data from the Federal Trade Commission's 2003 survey on identity theft. The likelihood that a person will be a victim of identity theft...
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The impact of demographic characteristics on awareness and usage of support groups
Coleman, Linda Jane; Shah, Nehal; Jain, Sanjay - In: Health marketing quarterly 32 (2015) 3, pp. 272-288
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Bowling together : scientific collaboration networks of demographers at European Population Conferences
Abel, Guy; Bordone, Valeria; Muttarak, Raya; Zagheni, Emilio - 2018
collaboration networks among demographers; and 3) gender differences in demographic research. The data are organised in a panel … demographers has increased substantially over the past ten years. While there is no gender disparity in the likelihood of co … fields of research vary considerably by gender where women are particularly overrepresented in the subfield 'fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779810