households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … relatively high shares of women. The underlying mechanisms include employment gains for women and improvements in women's health … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines …

selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps …, based on the ratio of female to male body mass index, to measure women's empowerment at the country level. Finally, by using …

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …