Why Are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Maternal Survival in India
This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using pooled indivi...
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Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19238584/adult-women-missing-son-preference-maternal-survival-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17295 |