Education and Gender Bias in the Sex Ratio at Birth: Evidence from India.
This article investigates the possible existence of a nonlinear link between female disadvantage in natality and education. To this end, we devise a theoretical model based on the key role of social interaction in explaining people's acquisition of preferences, which justifies the existence of a non...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 249 - 269 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
February 2010
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