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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278396
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Does sex-selective abortion improve girls' well-being? Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analía - 2010
The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292168
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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being : evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …
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Estimating the effects of expanding ultrasound use on sex selection in India
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2022
ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ultrasound in India at the state level over a ten …, which had the fastest increase in ultrasound use and little sex selection, we find that higher levels of ultrasound use …. The positive relationship between state-level ultrasound use and having a male child can be found across various …
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Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2022
ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ultrasound in India at the state level over a ten …, which had the fastest increase in ultrasound use and little sex selection, we find that higher levels of ultrasound use …. The positive relationship between state-level ultrasound use and having a male child can be found across various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296582
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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017
We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in 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...
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Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - 2010
have not yet had their desired number of sons (or daughters). The three implied control groups are births that occur pre-ultrasound …
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Does sex-selective abortion improve girls' well-being? : evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2010
The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732161
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The price of gold : dowry and death in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2016
Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of dowry, we use variation in gold prices to investigate this. First, we exploit a sharp unexpected rise...
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