The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …

Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 … time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for … China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …