Lin, Ming-Jen; Qian, Nancy; Liu, Jin‐Tan - 2021
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess … availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion … ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion …