Dubey, Amaresh; Verschoor, Arjan - In: Journal of South Asian Development 2 (2007) 1, pp. 1-18
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received wisdom holds that the answer is ‘yes’. We have two reasons to doubt this. First, we show that poverty is associated with better, not worse, sex ratios in India. Second, we quantify the...