discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, mortality, and sex ratios at death. Using death registers further supports this interpretation, since our …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after … controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India …

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 …

, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …

concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girlsand unfavorable school environment. There is some … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …