-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the …

Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 ….8-4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating that the reform encouraged female foeticide. We also find that the reform …