How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?

Demographic Research

Volumn 19, Issue , 2008, Pages 1831-1850

  Bhattacharjya, Debarun ^a   Sudarshan, Anant ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^b   Shachter, Ross ^a   Feldman, Marcus ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 54549085655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.54     Document Type: Article

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