Between 1991 and 2001, Gujarat has registered one of the steepest declines in the proportion of female to male children in the 0-6 year age group. The extent of decline revealed in the provisional figures of the Census 2001, is serious in the rural areas and alarming in the urban. Further, the...

Population data from Census-2011 at district level, show an alarming decline in the female to male (f/m) ratios in the child population (0–6 years). The decline is considerably higher in the urban segments of the population than in the rural segments. Besides, it is particularly sharp in some...

Using the two consecutive thick rounds of National Sample Survey data, we investigate the role of stigma, the economy's structure, potential selection bias, and sectoral differences in explaining the low labor force participation (LFP) of middle and secondary educated women in India relative to...

We develop a theoretical model to study sex selection behaviour as a collective choice constraint by a formidable set of actions which are not permissible, by incorporating social interactions wherein families induct biasness against girl child as a virtue of their collective dislike against...