Assessing the 'femaleness' of a population

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 271-289

  Jayaraj, D ^a   Subramanian, S ^a  

^a MADRAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

A dominance; Age distributed gender composition curve; Female headcount ratio; Rank reversal; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; SEX RATIO; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 0034121388     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00069-3     Document Type: Article

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