and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … biosocial pathways playing an important role in shaping the fertility-health-nexus. Specifically, the Western German "male … breadwinner" model of specialisation appears to have buffered the stresses associated with childrearing, whereas fertility off the …

fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

world. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some … authors, fertility decline has not generally led to an intensification of gender bias in mortality. Second, the paper finds …. -- Missing women ; fertility decline ; Hepatitis B ; sex-selective abortions ; gender bias in mortality …