preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die 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 …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after … controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India …