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Family decision-making in emerging economies
Chaudhary, Monica - In: International journal of business and globalisation : IJBG 14 (2015) 3, pp. 310-320
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Gender, intra-household discrimination and cash transfer schemes : the case of Indian Punjab
Singh, Nadia - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/75, pp. 1-13
For many years, the Punjab province of India has had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex ratio among all other states of India. In recent years, both the child sex ratio and the overall sex ratio has shown a marked improvement in the state. This paper analyses whether the improvement...
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Toiling children in India : the gender dimension
Kumar, Rajnish; Mitra, Arup; Murayama, Mayumi - In: International journal of social economics 40 (2013) 10, pp. 885-897
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The effects of intrauterine malnutrition on birth and fertility outcomes : evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - 2013
were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …
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Maternal health care : the case of iron supplementation in India
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Muhammad Ali - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 7 (2013) 2, pp. 263-275
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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Sex selection and health at birth among Indian immigrants
González, Libertad - 2016
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Son preference in India : implications for gender development
Mitra, Aparna - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 48 (2014) 4, pp. 1021-1037
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Financial incentives and fertility choices : evidence from India
Chatterjee, Tirtha; Jain, Ritika - In: The Indian economic journal 71 (2023) 4, pp. 673-688
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The State of Urban Health in India; Comparing the Poorest Quartile to the Rest of the Urban Population in Selected States and Cities
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
children were completely immunized in 2004–2005, 54 per cent of under-five year-olds were stunted, 82 per cent did not have … several states – for instance in under-five mortality rates, in the proportion of stunted children and in the proportion of …
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