, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …

-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 …

fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … appears to be outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls. This change may be plausible in light of the … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

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 …

How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and … households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection …. This improvement comes at a cost, as we observe an increase in under5 mortality for girls born at higher birth orders …