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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …
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Norway and explores gender differences in the extent to which older parents are better-resourced parents. Like most family … mothers and younger mothers are compared. Gender differences in the family history profiles of older parents appear to explain … motherhood at older ages was not uncommon in previous generations, rapid social and family changes in recent decades mean that …
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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 …
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Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism … effects point continuously and clearly towards liberalization of family and gender-role attitudes. Since the period effects …
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Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir …
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policies upholding the patriarchal family system. Finally, the authors hypothesize that child sex ratios in China and India …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the implementation of the Family 500+ benefit, changes in female … reaction to the child benefit may differ across age groups, this study found that since the introduction of the Family 500 … nonparticipants due to family and household responsibilities increased. …
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adolescent female fertility, healthcare spending is reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this study is to … examine the efect of adolescent female fertility and healthcare spending on maternal and neonatal mortality in South Asian …, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) data from World development indicator 1990-2020 considered for …
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focused on good health and well-being (SDG3), gender equality (SDG5), and reduced inequalities …
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, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly …
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