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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well‐Being: Evidence from India

Author(s) -

Hu Luojia,

Schlosser Analía

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12259

Subject(s) - sex selection , underweight , wasting , selection (genetic algorithm) , demography , malnutrition , sex ratio , medicine , psychology , population , body mass index , sociology , endocrinology , pathology , overweight , artificial intelligence , computer science

We study the impacts of prenatal sex selection on girls’ well‐being in India. We show that high sex ratios at birth reflect the practice of prenatal sex selection and apply a triple difference strategy to examine whether changes in health outcomes of girls relative to boys within states and over time are systematically associated with changes in sex‐ratios at birth. We find that an increase in prenatal sex selection leads to a reduction in girls’ malnutrition, in particular, underweight and wasting. We further explore various underlying channels linking between prenatal sex selection and girls’ outcomes.

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