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Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Cochrane, Tom - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010
This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782834
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415737
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Primary Education in India: Prospects of meeting the MDG Target
Bhalotra, Sonia; Zamora, Bernarda - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008
be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of realising universal primary education by the year 2015. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577260