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  1. Sex selection and health at birth among Indian immigrants
    Author: González, Libertad
    Published: March 2016
    Publisher:  [Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics and Business], [Barcelona]

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: [Working papers / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics and Business ; 1516]
    Subjects: fertility; sex ratio; abortion; sex selection; son preference; infant health; immigration; India; Spain
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 33 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. The seen and the unseen
    impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection
    Author: Javadekar, Sayli; Saxena, Kritika
    Published: July 2021
    Publisher:  Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, International Economics Department, Geneva, Switzerland

    How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and financial incentives? We analyze a conditional cash transfer program in India called Janani Suraksha Yojna. By providing access to... more

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    How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and financial incentives? We analyze a conditional cash transfer program in India called Janani Suraksha Yojna. By providing access to prenatal sex detection technology like the ultrasound scans, and simultaneously providing cash incentives to both households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection. Using difference-indifferences and triple difference estimators we find that the policy led to an increase in female births. This improvement comes at a cost, as we observe an increase in under5 mortality for girls born at higher birth orders, indicating a shift in discrimination against girls from pre-natal to post-natal. Our calculations show that the net effect of the policy was that nearly 300,000 more girls survived in treatment households between 2006 and 2015. Finally, we find that the role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex selection.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Series: Working paper series / Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, International Economics Department ; no. HEIDWP2021, 15
    Subjects: sex selection; gender; health; India; missing girls; prenatal sex detection; sex-selection; community health workers
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten), Illustrationen