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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 641, pp. 1-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799234
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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503574
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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296897
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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891004
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908893
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201021
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Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India : dynamics, frailty and fecundity
Bhalotra, Sonia R. (contributor);  … - 2006
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth … spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved … heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth spacing (fecundity). The model is estimated using micro data on almost 30 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003393880
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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth … spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved … heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth spacing (fecundity). The model is estimated using micro data on almost 30 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761334