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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milazzo, Annamaria
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
HIV
SEX
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