We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more … so for boys than for girls. A higher education level of the mother reduces mortality risk, but the effect is stronger for …

reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in …The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses …

parental mortality. Results: Based on 7 measures of sex composition, we find no protective effect of sons in either China or … Taiwan. For example, in the 1989 Taiwan sample, the hazard ratio for maternal mortality associated with having an eldest son … is 0.979 (95% CI (0.863, 1.111). In Taiwan, daughters may have been more beneficial than sons in reducing mortality in …

discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, mortality, and sex ratios at death. Using death registers further supports this interpretation, since our … evidence shows that the female biological advantage was not visible after an economic shock. In addition, gender discriminatory …

the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …