Journal article
On the quantity and quality of girls: fertility, parental investments, and mortality
- 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-five 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.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/ej/ueab035
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- The Economic Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 132
- Issue:
- 641
- Pages:
- 1-36
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-13
- DOI:
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1468-0297
- ISSN:
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0013-0133
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1171163
- Local pid:
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pubs:1171163
- Deposit date:
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2021-04-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal Economic Society
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Royal Economic Society. Published by Oxford University Press.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Oxford University Press at https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab035
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