fertility decline. Resulting shortages of wives improved the treatment of adult women without reducing discrimination against … position-changes that are taking place only slowly. Kinship systems in China, the Republic of Korea, and North India have … 'missing' in the world. Das Gupta and Li document how the excess mortality of girls was increased by war, famine, and fertility …

ethnic-specific gender norms on gender-biased mortality during resource shocks. Studying the 1891-1892 Russian famine, we … compare cohorts born before and after the famine in districts differentially affected by the famine and with diverse gender …