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Do population policies matter? : fertility and politics in Egypt, India, Kenya, and Mexico
Jain, Anrudh K. (ed.) - Population Council - 1998
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An empirical investigation of peer effects on fertility preferences
Mishra, Ankita; Parasnis, Jaai - 2014
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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
during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …
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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives
Anukriti, S - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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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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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India
Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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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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Diverging stories of “missing women” in South Asia : is son preference weakening in Bangladesh?
Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Mahmud, Simeen - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 4, pp. 138-163
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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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