Ancestral ecological endowments and missing women

Gautam Hazarika (), Chandan Jha and Sudipta Sarangi

Journal of Population Economics, 2019, vol. 32, issue 4, No 1, 1123 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the relationship between ecological endowments in antiquity and contemporary female to male sex ratios in the population. It is found that there are proportionately more missing women in countries whose ancestral ecological endowments were poorer. This relationship is shown to be strong even after ancestral plough use, the timing of the Neolithic Transition, and many other potentially confounding factors are controlled for. Similar results are also obtained using district-level data from India.

Keywords: Gender inequality; Historical factors; Resource scarcity; Culture; D1; J1; Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-018-0723-y

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