Explaining the skewed child sex ratio in rural India revisiting the landholding-patriarchy hypothesis

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 85-94

  Arokiasamy, Perianayagam ^a   Goli, Srinivas ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

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