Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 … China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches … girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the …

health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese … results are robust to using different growth charts and excluding gender-neutral ethnic minorities. Our results suggest girls …We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical …

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 …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the …

fact that China, South Korea, and Northwest India manifest such extreme child sex ratios compared with other patrilineal … aimed to challenge traditional social hierarchies, including the age and gender hierarchies of the kinship system. Thirdly …