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I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand possible consequences from a reduced … international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces … fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician … preferences over abortion influence abortion-related outcomes, most likely through greater enforcement of laws against sex …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559699
higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …
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We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using difference-in-difference and...
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higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India, even when parents do not treat boys and girls differently. Tests using panel data from...
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higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744667