Missing Daughters, Missing Brides?

D’ALBIS Hippolyte () and David de la Croix ()
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D’ALBIS Hippolyte: Paris School of Economics, University Paris I
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No 2012004, Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales) from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the possible imbalance at steady state, taking into account the endogeneity of population growth. Taking international data on ages at marriage, fertility rate, and mean age at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index.

Keywords: Missing women; marriage; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2012-03-28
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