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Divorce, abortion and children's sex ratio : the impact of divorce reform in China

Sun, Ang; Zhao, Yaohui - 2014

This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...

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India's Missing Girls : Biology, Customs, and Economic Development

Gupta, Bishnupriya - 2010

We review the evidence on the sex ratio among children below the age of six. International evidence shows that the sex ratio at birth is slightly biased towards boys, but boys suffer greater mortality, a pattern consistent with Darwinian evolution. With economic development, the male bias in the...

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We've got you covered : employer and employee responses to Dobbs v. Jackson

Adrjan, Pawel; Gudell, Svenja; Nix, Emily; Shrivastava, … - 2023

Following the June 24, 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the federal right to abortion … female-dominated jobs in states with "trigger" laws that outlawed abortion, (ii) satisfaction with management fell amongst …

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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well‐Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

the practice of sex‐selective abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of …

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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia - 2011

abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …

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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio : The Impact of Divorce Reform in China

Sun, Ang - 2014

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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation

Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic …. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in …

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Estimating the effects of expanding ultrasound use on sex selection in India

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2022

-year period (1999 to 2008) and the consequences for the prevalence of sex-selective abortion. Omitting the Southern Indian states …

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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target …

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

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