Education And Gender Bias in the Sex Ratio At Birth: Evidence From India
Autor: | Rebeca Echavarri, Roberto Ezcurra |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Social Values media_common.quotation_subject India Context (language use) Sample (statistics) Social value orientations Health Services Accessibility Education Residence Characteristics Econometrics Humans Sociology Sex Preselection Sex Ratio Spatial dependence Small-Area Analysis Disadvantage Demography media_common Reproducibility of Results Articles Social relation Nonlinear Dynamics Educational Status Female Prejudice Social psychology Models Econometric |
Popis: | This article investigates the possible existence of a nonlinear link between female disadvantage in natality and education. To this end, we devise a theoretical model based on the key role of social interaction in explaining people’s acquisition of preferences, which justifies the existence of a nonmonotonic relationship between female disadvantage in natality and education. The empirical validity of the proposed model is examined for the case of India, using district-level data. In this context, our econometric analysis pays particular attention to the role of spatial dependence to avoid any potential problems of misspecification. The results confirm that the relationship between the sex ratio at birth and education in India follows an inverted U-shape. This finding is robust to the inclusion of additional explanatory variables in the analysis, and to the choice of the spatial weight matrix used to quantify the spatial interdependence between the sample districts. |
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