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NAC Working Group on Gender and the Sex Ratio Draft Recommendations
Naqvi, Farah; Kumar, A.K. Shiva - eSocialSciences - 2012
The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and with the National Mission for the...
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Population dynamics and marriage payments : an analysis of the long run equilibrium in India
Maitra, Sudeshna - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 18 (2018) 2, pp. 1-26
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Why dowry deaths have risen in India?
Dang, Geetika; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav - 2018
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Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China's 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis?
Zhao, Zhongwei; Zhu, Yuan; Reimondos, Anna - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 33, pp. 885-906
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Sex Ratio at Birth and Infant Mortality Rate in China: An Empirical Study
Lai, Dejian - In: Social Indicators Research 70 (2005) 3, pp. 313-326
In this article, we used the data from the last three population censuses of China in 1982, 1990 and 2000, to study the … dynamics of the sex ratio at birth and the infant mortality rate in China. In the late 1970s, China started its economic reform … has increased to significantly more males to females, and in some provinces of China reached unprecedented levels. The …
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Does the marriage market sex ratio affect parental sex selection? : evidence from the Chinese census
Li, Xing; Chan, M. W. Luke; Spencer, Byron G.; Yang, Wei - In: Journal of population economics 29 (2016) 4, pp. 1063-1082
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Bride price and household income : evidence from rural China
Li, Jing; Li, Jun - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 4, pp. 1327-1346
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls’ outcomes. Using repeated …
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WAR, MARRIAGE MARKETS AND THE SEX RATIO AT BIRTH
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2011
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
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Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010
Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study tests the effect of relative income – younger people's earning potential relative to their aspirations, as approximated by older families' income – on the proportions married, by sex, in the first fifteen years out of school. It finds that relative income has become a better...
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