Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269224 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 971
Publisher: 
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
Abstract: 
Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, `flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction for different disease environments in the flow measure. Alternative reference standards reconcile the results of the two measures.
Subjects: 
Missing women
gender bias
mortality
disease
age
Sub-Saharan Africa
China
India
JEL: 
J16
D63
I14
I15
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-3-96973-135-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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