Consumption Smoothing and Excess Female Mortality in Rural India

Elaina Rose

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999, vol. 81, issue 1, 41-49

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between consumption smoothing and excess female mortality, by asking if favorable rainfall shocks in childhood increase the survival probabilities of girls to a greater extent than they increase boys' survival probabilities for a sample of rural Indian children. In order to avert the issue of selection bias due to underreporting of births of girls, a methodology is employed that does not require data on births by gender. The results indicate that favorable rainfall shocks increase the ratio of the probability that a girl survives to the probability that a boy survives. © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 1999
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