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girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 …
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This paper examines the association between parental son preference and child anthropometric status, and the extent to which this relationship depends on the level of female autonomy. Results highlight the importance of maternal son preference and mothers' involvement in household decision...
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents …. Further assumptions make the model applicable to the data from the Czech National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug …
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