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Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions : India's Experience Over Four Decades
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2020
Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women with no sons—had the most substantial lengthening of birth intervals and the most biased sex ratios. As a result, we now see cases that reverse the traditional spacing pattern,...
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Mortality, Fertility and Persistent Income Inequality
Sarkar, Jayanta - 2007
Many developing countries are plagued by persistent inequality in income distribution. While a growing body of economic-demographic literature emphasizes differential fertility channel, this paper investigates differential child mortality - differences in child mortality across income groups -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775459
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Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?
Lee, Soohyung - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference – Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960272
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Girls and Boys : Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
Lee, Soohyung - 2018
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918229
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Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?
Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625388
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Girls and boys : economic crisis, fertility, and birth outcomes
Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2018
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863857
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Short- and long-run effects of a sizable child subsidy : evidence from Russia
Sorvachev, Ilia; Jakovlev, Evgenij - 2020
This paper utilizes a large-scale natural experiment aimed at increasing fertility in Russia. Motivated by a decade-long decrease in fertility and population, the Russian government introduced a sequence of sizable child subsidies (called Maternity Capitals) in 2007 and 2012. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180338
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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018
We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national medical birth register and intergenerational link registers...
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Stochastic Dominance and Demographic Policy Evaluation: A Critique
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Liu, Xiying - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2013
Stochastic dominance (SD) is commonly used to rank income distribution and assesssocial policies. The literature argues that SD is a robust criterion for policy evaluationbecause it requires minimal knowledge of the social welfare function. We argue that,on the contrary, SD is not a robust...
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Sex Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2016
daughter is born. Women with 8 or more years of education, both in urban and rural areas, are the main users of sex …-selective abortions and have the lowest fertility. Women with less education have substantially higher fertility and do not appear to use … sex selection. Predicted lifetime fertility for high-education women declined more than 10% between 1985-1994, when sex …
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