This paper tries to investigate the ultimate socio-economic determinants of the sex ratio at birth in the Indian case. A sex ratio at birth which is biased against female births can result in gender imbalance which in turn can have grave implications for society in the form of social unrest,...

This article uses a utility based theory of suicide to conclude that a fall in the well-being of the female population in a country relative to the male population should imply a rise in the ratio of female suicide rate to male suicide rate. An application of this inference is attempted for...