The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … 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 …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an … gestational age and birth weight, but no change in early-life mortality. A rich heterogeneity analysis suggests that negative …