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Anderson, Siwan and Ray, Debraj (2019) Missing unmarried women. Journal of European Economic Association, 17 (5). pp. 1585-1616. jvy027. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvy027 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy027
Abstract
That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing women phenomenon. There are approximately 1.5 million missing women between the ages of 30 and 60 years old each year. We find that 35% of these missing women of adult age can be attributed to not being married. These estimates vary by region. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa. By contrast, China has almost no missing unmarried women. We show that 70% of missing unmarried women are of reproductive age and that it is the relatively high mortality rates of these young unmarried women (compared to their married counterparts) that drive this phenomenon.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Developing countries -- Women -- Statistics, Missing persons -- Mathematical models | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of European Economic Association | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1585-1616 | ||||||||
Article Number: | jvy027 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvy027 | ||||||||
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 Journal of European Economic Association following peer review. The version of record Siwan Anderson, Debraj Ray; Missing Unmarried Women, Journal of the European Economic Association, , jvy027, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy027 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 October 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 July 2019 | ||||||||
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