Where There Is a Will: Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families

Tarun Jain

Journal of Human Resources, 2014, vol. 49, issue 2

Abstract: This paper demonstrates that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality, and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India. Tests using panel data from rural households support this explanation, which accounts for 7 percent of excess female mortality in Haryana and Rajasthan and 4 percent in Punjab. An institutional explanation suggests limits on the role for public policy in addressing large sex differences in health and mortality outcomes.

Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families (2009)
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