-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …

in explaining first-born boys' education levels. In contrast, both effects for first-born girls are evident but go in …Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate … investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by …

Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until a boy is born, and to concentrate investment in boys …

Parents preferring sons tend to have more children until a boy is born and concentrate investment in boys for a given …