MORE MISSING WOMEN, FEWER DYING GIRLS: THE IMPACT OF SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ON SEX AT BIRTH AND RELATIVE FEMALE MORTALITY IN TAIWAN

被引：47

作者：

Lin, Ming-Jen ^{[1
]}

Liu, Jin-Tan ^{[1
]}

Qian, Nancy ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Taiwan Univ, Taipei, Taiwan

[2] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION | 2014年 / 12卷 / 04期

关键词：

PREFERENCE; CHINA;

D O I：

10.1111/jeea.12091

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This study finds that the introduction of sex-selective abortion in Taiwan due to the legalization of abortion when prenatal sex-detection technology was already available increased the fraction of males born at higher parities and changed the composition of mothers choosing to give birth. Controlling for compositional changes, we find that access to sex-selective abortion reduced relative neonatal female mortality rates for higher-parity births.

引用

页码：899 / 926

页数：28

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