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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia - 2011

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...

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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being : evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …

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Estimating the effects of expanding ultrasound use on sex selection in India

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2022

ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ultrasound in India at the state level over a ten …, which had the fastest increase in ultrasound use and little sex selection, we find that higher levels of ultrasound use …. The positive relationship between state-level ultrasound use and having a male child can be found across various …

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Baby bonus, fertility, and missing women

Kim, Wookun - 2024

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at birth, and infant health. In the context of South Korea, I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers provided to families with newborn babies and the universe of...

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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8-4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...

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Son Preference and Child Labor in Nepal : The Household Impact of Sending Girls to Work

Koolwal, Gayatri B. - 2010

This paper presents evidence that increased earnings opportunities for girls can lower household preference for sons, as measured by the household's average reported ideal number of sons relative to ideal number of children. Using the 1995-96 Nepal Living Standards Survey, I find that reported...

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Does sex-selective abortion improve girls' well-being? : evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2010

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732161

Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well‐Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188824

Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes : Evidence from India

Dhar, Diva; Jain, Tarun; Jayachandran, Seema - 2015

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and rights of women and girls) collected from adolescents...

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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa - 2021

Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we show, using data from a purposefully designed...

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