Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

Since the early 1980s China has experienced an alarming and increasing gender skew in infants, with up to one million more boys than girls reported born annually in recent years. Using the most recent Chinese demographic data, this paper argues that the social causes of this gendered demographic...

Considerable evidence exists of discrimination against females in India in terms of entitlements, opportunities, social seclusion, access to food and medical attention. Education can be an important instrument to reduce gender discrimination. Lower investments are made in the education of...

In strongly patriarchal societies, where the cultural and economic value of sons is at a premium, son preference manifests itself in many ways, ranging from differential allocation of household resources, medical care and neglect of girl children to female infanticide. With the increasing...

This article explores the phenomenon of girl violence by examining teen dating violence and girls' experiences with intimate abuse both as victims and as perpetrators. While there is a tendency to view women's experiences as victims of violence as separate and distinct from their experiences as...

Current explanations for girl violence remain incomplete. They fail to explain why three out of four violent female offenders have a female victim - and in fifty percent of the cases, that victim is an acquaintance. Current theories do no explain why girls are attacking girls, nor do they...

This paper examines the cultural reproduction of daughter aversion from a generational perspective by following ten girls into adulthood in district Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Children as much as adults are embedded in the micro-contexts of everyday lives in which gendered practices are reproduced,...