responding to worse health at birth of Chinese-American girls. We document higher rates of low birth weight, congenital anomalies …The literature on "missing girls" suggests a net preference for sons both in China and among Chinese immigrants to the … West. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that newborn Chinese-American girls are treated more intensively in US hospitals: they …

period. We also find that surviving girls are shorter. Second, using monthly time series data for 35 years, we again find … determination technology, in the sex ratio at birth. This constitutes the first evidence that dowry costs lead parents to eliminate … foetal and newborn girls, and on a scale much larger than "dowry deaths" amongst married women which have been the subject of …

selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls … use of such practices is reflective of the striking inequities girls face today, and it also has negative implications for … that have girls. This paper takes stock of the direct measures used across countries grappling with skewed child sex ratios …