Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …