China's missing girls in the three decades from 1980 to 2010

Asian Women

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 53-73

  Jiang, Quanbao ^a   Li, Shuzhuo ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess female mortality; Life table; Missing girls; Sex ratio at birth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878314492     PISSN: 1225925X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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