-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the … distribution of girls toward lower socioeconomic status families. The findings have implications not only for counts of missing …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in … levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …