Prenatal health investment decisions: Does the child's sex matter?

Demography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 885-905

  Lhila, Aparna ^a   Simon, Kosali I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MALE; MIGRATION; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UMBILICAL CORD; UNITED STATES; VASCULARIZATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DECISION MAKING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; UMBILICAL CORD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59849125710     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0032     Document Type: Article

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