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Anukriti, S., Bhalotra, Sonia and Tam, Eddy H. F. (2022) On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments, and mortality. The Economic Journal, 132 (641). pp. 1-36. doi:10.1093/ej/ueab035
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab035
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Abortion -- India, Contraceptives -- India, Human reproductive technology -- India, Sex preselection, Children -- Mortality -- India, Fertility, Human -- India | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Economic Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 132 | ||||||||
| Number: | 641 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-36 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/ej/ueab035 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The Economic Journal following peer review. The version of record S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra, Eddy H F Tam, On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality, The Economic Journal, 2021;, ueab035, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab035 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab035 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2021 Royal Economic Society. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Economic Society. | ||||||||
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