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...

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Publicado en:	Demography Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 249 - 269
Autores principales:	Echávarri, Rebeca A., Ezcurra, Roberto
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. February 2010
Materias:	Sex of children, Parental preferences for Physiological control systems Genetic sex determination Social conditions of women Indian women (Asians) Mathematical models Sex ratio Education India
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