, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an … "Strom fehlender Frauen" bezeichnet werden, darauf hin, dass die geschlechtsspezifische Verzerrung der Sterblichkeit viel …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …

, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women … reference standard for sex-specific mortality from rich countries that is inappropriately applied to settings in developing …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …

children. In contrast, `flow estimates’ suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …

Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct … the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a …

Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and … gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age …

, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … gender environments play an important role in explaining differences in health-reporting behaviours across gender, at least …