Background While the gender disparity in health and mortality in various stages of life in
India is well documented, there is limited evidence on female disadvantage in health-care …

This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex
selection and how does birth spacing interact with the use of sex-selective abortions? I …

Preference for sons culminates in higher mortality and inadequate immunizations and health
care visits for girls compared to boys in several countries. It is unknown if the negative …

This qualitative study explores how urban middle-class north Indian women from the states
of Haryana and Delhi practise their reproductive agency within collective and patriarchal …

Young conspecifics are killed in many animal species, often by unrelated males. The role
that females—particularly mothers—play in harming infants is often overlooked, as it …

Alcoholism and drug addiction have come to be regarded as psychological and social
disorders in recent times. The international diagnostic system ICD (International …

We examine whether immigrants have brought the missing women phenomenon to
Germany and Switzerland. Using a range of micro data since 1990, we find no systematic …

We examine the consequences of a tax and benefit reform package on work incentives as
implied by changes in tax and replacement rates. For this purpose we focus on policy …

This project recovers a forgotten history of Renaissance poetry as mail. At a time when
trends in English print publication and manuscript dissemination were making lyric verse …

Social customs and the patriarchal structure of Indian society determine women's
intrahousehold status. Vision loss due to cataracts and post-surgery recovery of vision may …