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 … girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the …

health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese … results are robust to using different growth charts and excluding gender-neutral ethnic minorities. Our results suggest girls …We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical …

In the wake of the one-child policy of 1979, China experienced an unprecedented rise in the sex ratio at birth (ratio … for the sex ratio at birth affect the probability of failure to marry in 21st century China. Three consequences of the … infections, the economic and physical well-being of men who fail to marry, and China's ability to care for its elderly, with a …

In the wake of the one-child policy of 1979, China experienced an unprecedented rise in the sex ratio at birth (ratio … for the sex ratio at birth affect the probability of failure to marry in 21st century China. Three consequences of the … infections, the economic and physical well-being of men who fail to marry, and China's ability to care for its elderly, with a …