these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]. …

girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 …

one and three years. We conclude that these effects for boys and girls cannot be attributed to problems associated with … earlier research, girls with surviving older sisters had higher mortality rates after their first month of life. Contrary to … earlier research, however, boys with surviving older brothers also have higher mortality rates, at least between the ages of …

period. We also find that surviving girls are shorter. Second, using monthly time series data for 35 years, we again find …Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates … foetal and newborn girls, and on a scale much larger than "dowry deaths" amongst married women which have been the subject of …