Women's wellbeing and the sex ratio at birth: Some suggestive evidence from India

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 91-119

  Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar ^a   Subramanian, Sreenivasan ^a  

^a MADRAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; SEX RATIO; SON PREFERENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 3242726240     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022038042000218152     Document Type: Article

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