, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …

variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls … would have been 2 percent higher absent the crisis and that birth outcomes for girls were no better than those for boys …, findings that differ from the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. This relative disadvantage of girls is more severe among newborns who …

health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese … results are robust to using different growth charts and excluding gender-neutral ethnic minorities. Our results suggest girls …We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the …