Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1227-1261 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Journal | Economic Journal |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue number | 587 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Economics and Econometrics
