implications because it suggests that India's problem of"missing women"may be concentrated in particular groups. The authors …The authors use recent data from the 2006 National Family Health Survey of India to explore the relationship between … conclude that religion and caste play a key role in determining the demographic characteristics of India …

implications because it suggests that India's problem of "missing women" may be concentrated in particular groups. The authors …The authors use recent data from the 2006 National Family Health Survey of India to explore the relationship between … conclude that religion and caste play a key role in determining the demographic characteristics of India. …

"This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …