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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins

Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination—leading to girls’ poorer health status and, consequently, higher morta...

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Autores principales: Kashyap, Ridhi, Behrman, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7732804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32978723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00909-0