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Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2012

The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a … large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant women rose dramatically in many parts of … India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We …

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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...

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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South...

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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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Shocking Offers : Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

Archibong, Belinda; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female, offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where...

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Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts

Akresh, Richard; Caruso, German Daniel; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2016

We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance from conflict sites – a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies...

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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict

Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011

This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...

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Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the...

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Early childhood health during conflict: The legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda

Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas - 2019

This study finds evidence of irreversible health deficits amongst young children who were exposed to the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda (1987- 2007). The causal effect of the conflict is found to be a 0.65 standard deviation fall in height-for-age z-scores amongst children...

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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

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