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India's Missing Women : Disentangling Cultural, Political and Economic Variables
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana M.; Ranger, Martin - 2006
The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely …
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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated … associated with a reduction in excess female child mortality, or a reduction in son preference. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278396
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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017
India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 … increased excess female infant mortality and son-biased fertility stopping. This suggests that the inheritance reform raised the …
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It's a boy! Women and non-monetary benefits from a son in India
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290023
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The power of Lakshmi : monetary incentives for raising a girl
Biswas, Nabaneeta; Cornwell, Christopher Mark; … - 2021
Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa - 2020
, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390509
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Schooling in Sickness and in Health : The Effects of Epidemic Disease on Gender Inequality
Archibong, Belinda - 2020
Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct and opportunity costs of investing in girls, particularly in poorer countries. We investigate this hypothesis by examining the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis...
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Missing Women in India : Gender-Specific Effects of Early-Life Rainfall Shocks
Sivadasan, Jagadeesh; Xu, Wenjian - 2021
We link over a century of monthly precipitation data (1911–2011) to the population by gender and age at the district level in the 1991, 2001, and 2011 Indian censuses to study how early-life (around birth year) rainfall shocks affect cohorts’ population sex ratios. Using an approach (from...
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Covid-19 and Women's Age at Marriage : New Evidence from India
Batheja, Deepshikha; Nandi, Arindam; Banerji, Abhik; … - 2022
data from the National Family Health Survey of 2019-2021 of India (NFHS-5), we explore how COVID-19 impacted age at …
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Economic or non-economic factors : what empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …
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