Thursday, April 17 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Napoleon A1

Session 16:
Sex Ratios in Asia

Chair: Wendy Baldwin, Population Council
Discussant: Sonya Rastogi, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussant: Monica Das Gupta, World Bank Group

  1. Missing Women, Hepatitis B, and Sex Ratios at Birth: A Reappraisal of the Evidence • Amar A. Hamoudi, University of Michigan

  2. Son Preference and Gender Inequality • Deepankar Basu, Ohio State University ; Robert de Jong, Ohio State University

  3. A Multinomial Model of Fertility Choice and Offspring Sex-Ratios in India • Rubiana M Chamarbagwala, Indiana University, Bloomington ; Martin Ranger, Bonn University

  4. Son Preference and Reproductive Choice in Madhya Pradesh, India • Jeffrey Edmeades, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) ; Kerry MacQuarrie, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) ; Tina Y. Falle, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

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