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| Title: | | Son preference, sex selection and the problem of missing women in India  |
| Authors: | | Basu, Deepankar |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper, University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics 2009-06 |
| Abstract: | | This paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India: hepatitis B and human intervention. Estimating a male- preferring stopping rule with data from three rounds of the National Family Health Survey in India (1992, 1998 and 2005), I find that the probability of a male birth varies significantly across birth parities. Using a novel proxy for hepatitis B in India - tribal status - I also find that hepatitis B has no impact on the probability of male birth. I conclude that human intervention explains the increasing SRB in India. |
| JEL: | | J1 J7 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
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