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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okr-10986-355312021-07-20T18:47:25Z On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality Anukriti, S. Bhalotra, Sonia Tam, Eddy H.F. ABORTION CHILD MORTALITY FERTILITY GENDER HEALTH PRENATAL SEX DETECTION SEX-SELECTION MISSING GIRLS 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 survived to age five. Mechanisms include moderation of son-biased fertility stopping and narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments. However, surviving girls are more likely to be born in lower status families. Our findings have implications not only for counts of missing girls but also for the later life outcomes of girls. 2021-04-30T14:50:20Z 2021-04-30T14:50:20Z 2021-04-28 Journal Article The Economic Journal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35531 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article |
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ABORTION CHILD MORTALITY FERTILITY GENDER HEALTH PRENATAL SEX DETECTION SEX-SELECTION MISSING GIRLS Anukriti, S. Bhalotra, Sonia Tam, Eddy H.F. On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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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 survived to age five. Mechanisms include moderation of son-biased fertility stopping and narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments. However, surviving girls are more likely to be born in lower status families. Our findings have implications not only for counts of missing girls but also for the later life outcomes of girls. |
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Anukriti, S. Bhalotra, Sonia Tam, Eddy H.F. |
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Anukriti, S. Bhalotra, Sonia Tam, Eddy H.F. |
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Anukriti, S. |
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality |
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on the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments, and mortality |
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