Life in pairs: Estimating the impact of twin’s sex on child survival in India

Shampa Bhattacharjee and Arka Roy Chaudhuri

Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 242, issue C

Abstract: This paper shows that in India, male twins with female co-twins have higher survival rates, but opposite results hold for female twins. Biological factors and differential resource allocation drive the results for male and female children, respectively.

Keywords: Child survival; Twins; Sibling sex; Sibling rivalry; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I19 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111844

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