Consumption smoothing and excess female mortality in rural India

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rose, E
• 署名单位: University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/003465399767923809
• 发表日期: 1999-02
• 页码: 41-49
• 关键词: bangladesh; sex; CHILDREN; thailand; income

摘要

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.