The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …