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Sex selection and health at birth among Indian immigrants
González, Libertad - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458587
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Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?
Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625388
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Child underreporting, fertility, and sex ratio imbalance in China
Goodkind, Daniel M. - In: Demography : a publication of the Population … 48 (2011) 1, pp. 291-316
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Does a legal ban on sex-selective abortions improve child sex ratios? : evidence from a policy change in India
Nandi, Arindam; Deolalikar, Anil B. - In: Journal of development economics 103 (2013), pp. 216-228
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Girls for sale? : child sex ratio and girls trafficking in India
Prakash, Nishith; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2014
Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal...
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Exploring the population implications of male preference when the sex probabilities at birth can be altered
Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. - 2014
of fertility rates and male-biased birth sex ratios. METHODS The "laboratory" is a closed, stable population with five … rule were adopted by all women bearing children. We then assess the impact of alternative combinations of fertility rates … have no effect on the male/female birth proportions in the population, although they can alter the fertility rate, age …
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Family structure and declining child sex ratios in rural India : uncertainty and discrimination
Larsen, Mattias (contributor); Gooch, Pernille (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003191038
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Turkish demographic and health survey 1998
1999
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Demographic transition and achieving the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean : a regional overview of the national transfer accounts
Duda-Nyczak, Marta - 2021
In the context of the rapidly advancing population ageing, the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is currently facing an unprecedented challenge of adapting to the transformed - yet, still evolving - age structure of the population. The paper provides a regional synthesis of the National...
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Sex ratio and religion in Vietnam
Tien Manh Vu; Yamada, Hiroyuki - 2020
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