Theories of the social consequences of imbalanced sex ratios posit that men will exercise
extraordinarily strict control over women's behaviour when women's relationship options are …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for
violence against women. We match district level administrative crime data by category to …

In recent years, gender‐based violence in South Asia has been of great concern to scholars
and policymakers alike. This study explores the effects of women's relative resources on …

Data from the third wave of India's 2005-2006 National Family and Health Survey are used
to examine the influence of the community-level sex ratio on several dimensions of women's …

Although substantial research has explored the causes of India's excessively masculine
population sex ratio, few studies have examined the consequences of this surplus of males …

Explanations for the different comparative values of sons and daughters have focused on
economic and cultural factors including the type of agriculture, kinship systems, customs …

The prime objective of this paper is to study the spousal violence against women through
gender relative status approach. This study utilized data from the fourth round of National …

It has been hypothesized that uneven sex ratios in the population could lead to increased
violence. The objective of this analysis is to explore the relationship between uneven sex …

Attempting to ascertain whether the skewed sex ratio in three northern districts of India has
led to a change in sex-selective behaviour and related practices, this study finds that a …

Abstract Using an Instrumental Variable strategy, we find a positive causal relation between
son preference, proxied by child sex ratio, and crime in India; a country with strong …