The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match …

of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon …