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Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality?
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I examine whether prenatal sex selection has substituted postnatal excess female mortality by analysing the dynamics of child sex ratios between 1980 and 2015 using country-level life table data. I decompose changes in child sex ratios into a ‘fertility’ component attributable to prenatal sex selection and a ‘mortality’ component attributable to sex differentials in postnatal survival. Although reductions in numbers of excess female deaths have accompanied increases in missing female births i...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/00324728.2018.1442583
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- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Population Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 73
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 57-78
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-04-25
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1477-4747
- ISSN:
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0032-4728
- Source identifiers:
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738171
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- 2017-10-23
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- © 2018 Kashyap. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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