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Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017

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, research has mainly focused on excess female...

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Life and death under son preference : economic stress, fertility and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800-1910

Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; … - 2023

Relying on longitudinal micro data from 13 Spanish rural villages between 1800 and 1910, this paper assesses whether discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area with a strong preference for sons. Our...

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

'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 is among children in India and China, and is larger in...

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

'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 is among children in India and China, and is larger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226886

Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...

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Son preference, gender discrimination and missing girls in rural Span, 1750-1950

Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; Beltrán Tapia, Francisco J. - 2020

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Schooling in Sickness and in Health : The Effects of Epidemic Disease on Gender Inequality

Archibong, Belinda - 2020

Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct and opportunity costs of investing in girls, particularly in poorer countries. We investigate this hypothesis by examining the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis...

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Proportional representation, political responsiveness and child mortality

Gathmann, Christina - 2019

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I … representation generated substantive health benefits for the general population. Using the exemplary case of Switzerland, I first …

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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality

Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021 - This version: September 2021

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

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Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018

show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of … Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …

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