fertility decline. Resulting shortages of wives improved the treatment of adult women without reducing discrimination against … daughters or increasing women's autonomy. The latter goals can be reached only with fundamental changes in women's family … position-changes that are taking place only slowly. Kinship systems in China, the Republic of Korea, and North India have …

among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is …