Signs of change? Sex ratio imbalance and shifting social practices in northern India

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 45-52

  Larsen, Mattias ^a   Kaur, Ravinder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

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