pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their … fertility behavior medically known to increase their risk of death. The observed sex ratios for first births imply that 2 …

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir …

, and birth spacing, using data on Hindu women from India's National Family and Health Surveys. Women with eight or more …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 …

policies upholding the patriarchal family system. Finally, the authors hypothesize that child sex ratios in China and India …

The authors focus on infant and child mortality in rural areas of India. They construct a flexible duration model … environmental characteristics. The model is estimated using the 1998-99 wave of the Indian National Family and Health Survey. The …

India, which targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River. Difference-in-difference estimations indicate that the ruling …

future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape …

During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its … the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys and instruments for family size using the distance to the nearest family … education expenditure and various measures of private tutoring investment -- and is robust to various definitions of family size …

household responsibilities, asking whether gender is a primary determinant, shaping these patterns. She finds that labor supply … patterns are driven more by household role, than by gender. Heads of households, regardless of sex, behave similarly. Women who …, based on gender, or on household structure? She also detects a strong added-worker effect among secondary workers, a result …