Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries—in education, personal
autonomy, and more—explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are …

Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction,
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and …

This article adopts a comparative perspective to review the recent increase in the sex ratio at
birth (SRB) across Asia. It first describes and compares the most recent birth statistics in Asia …

Preference for sons over daughters, evident in China's and South Asia's male sex ratios, is
commonly rationalized by poverty and the need for old‐age support. In this article we study …

Relative to developed countries and some parts of the developing world, most notably sub-
Saharan Africa, there are far fewer women than men in India and China. It has been argued …

How much of the increase in sex ratio (male to female) at birth since the early 1980s in
China is attributed to increased prenatal sex selection? This question is addressed by …

The existing literature on forced migration limits our understanding of how violence affects
migration to competing destinations. This article adds to the literature on forced migration by …

We study differences in parental time investments in preschool girls and boys in Canada, the
United Kingdom, and the United States. We find that investments in teaching activities like …

China's land reform in 1978–84 unleashed rapid growth in farm output and household
income. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the
historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the …