I document extremely son-biased sex ratios at birth among Asian-born parents in Spain. Using data on the universe of … registered births in Spain during 2007- 2012, I show that there are 117 boys per 100 girls born to Indian parents, compared with … is sex-selective abortions. I find no increase in the sex ratio after the 2010 reform that deregulated abortion during …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … incentives to sex‐select as fertility approaches its target. …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician …