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among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … bias in mortality among young adults in Africa (though of much lower magnitude than suggested by Anderson and Ray). … apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …
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In this paper, we examine whether and how green bond issuance affects local air quality and mortality rates in the … negatively associated with local mortality rates, which is consistent with our expectation that, by improving local air quality …
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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 …
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children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …
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children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …
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