The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

world. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some … authors, fertility decline has not generally led to an intensification of gender bias in mortality. Second, the paper finds …. -- Missing women ; fertility decline ; Hepatitis B ; sex-selective abortions ; gender bias in mortality …

. This study examines the empirical evidence for this assertion, based on Australian data. While hospital proximity might …

The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of … endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data limitations on out-of-hospital mortality. Using policy …-induced variation in hospital distance, arising from plausibly exogenous emergency hospital closures in the highly regulated Swedish …