On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality
Access to prenatal sex-detection technology in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of girls. We find that it has also narrowed the gender gap in under-5 mortality, consistent with surviving girls being more wanted than aborted girls. For every three aborted girls, one additional girl...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35531 |