"The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …

This paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India … Family Health Survey in India (1992, 1998 and 2005), I find that the probability of a male birth varies significantly across … birth parities. Using a novel proxy for hepatitis B in India - tribal status - I also find that hepatitis B has no impact on …

We study whether changes in prenatal sex selection across regions in India are associated with changes in girls …