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- Title
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality.
- Authors
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia; Tam, Eddy H F
- 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.
- Subjects
INDIA; FERTILITY; GENDER inequality; MORTALITY; GIRLS
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2022, Vol 132, Issue 641, p1
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ej/ueab035