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Family comes first : reproductive health and the gender gap in entrepreneurship

Zandberg, Jonathan - In: Journal of financial economics 140 (2021) 3, pp. 838-864

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Does it Take Two? The Effect of Partners' Characteristics on Teenage Pregnancy

Zavodny, Madeline - 2015

abortion, marriage, or a nonmarital birth. The results indicate that several attributes of both men and women appear to play a …

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Gender Discrimination in Sex Selective Abortions and its Transition in South Korea

Chun, H.; Das Gupta, M. - 2009

example of this gender discrimination is female selective abortion and the resulting imbalanced sex ratio. This article …Despite increased economic growth and social development, gender relations in South Korea have not progressed much …

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Evidence for an Incipient Decline in Numbers of Missing Girls in China and India

Das Gupta, Monica; Chung, Woojin; Li, Shuzhuo - 2009

The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention among researchers and policymakers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios (males to females under age 5) were the...

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Sex Selective Abortion and the Nature of Rights

Bedi, Sonu - 2010

such a prohibition looks to why a woman procures an abortion. The best solution to addressing the problem of such abortions …

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Measuring sex-selective abortion: how many women abort?

Dimri, Aditi; Gille, Véronique; Ketz, Philipp - 2021

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Papa does preach : daughters and polarization of attitudes toward abortion

Effenterre, Clémentine van - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 179 (2020), pp. 188-201

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More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying : The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan

Lin, Ming-Jen - 2008

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess … availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion … ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion …

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Sex-Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing

Pörtner, Claus C - 2015

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex selection. This paper presents a novel approach that...

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Hi-tech sexism? : evidence from Bangladesh

Hoque, Md. Nazmul; Boulier, Bryan L. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 20 (2020) 3, pp. 1-39

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