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among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … applied to settings where the overall disease and mortality environment differ greatly; the attempt to control for the disease … apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …
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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661439
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …
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is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454366
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the … children. In contrast, `flow estimates’ suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226886
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Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...
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Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947882