Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct … the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …

"Stock estimates" of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … children. In contrast, `flow estimates’ suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

specifically. The negative impact gender differentiation has on women’s careers, however, is not gone. Differential treatment and …Progress has been made in the last century toward reducing gender bias in society at large and in the workplace … biases have moved from explicit to more implicit. These biases are rooted in decades of modeling and stereotyping women as …