In a recent issue of this journal, Klasen [1996] and Svedberg [1990, 1996] have expressed diverging opinions on the nature of gender bias in sub-Saharan Africa. The divergence arises partly out of the choice of indicators and partly out of the choice of standards. It is possible, however, to...

This paper aims to explore the regional differences in gender wage gap across the various municipalities in Denmark using data from the revised Statistics Denmark databank for the time period 2008-2014. The determinants used to measure this wage gap include educational attainment of males and...

Despite century old concern and debate child sex ratio patterns have shown an alarming increase over the last two decades, more so during 1991 to 2001. The pattern of increase in child sex ratio though erratic up to the first half of the last century, shows consistent rise at least since 1961....

We develop a theoretical model to study sex selection behaviour as a collective choice constraint by a formidable set of actions which are not permissible, by incorporating social interactions wherein families induct biasness against girl child as a virtue of their collective dislike against...