Conference organiser: Sonia Bhalotra
Sex selection and parental investment: the interplay of technological and economic change.
There is a long tradition of son preference in South and South East Asia. Persistent neglect has resulted in decades of excess mortality of girls and women at all ages. In the last few decades, the growing availability of ultrasound technology and the legalisation of abortion in developing countries have combined with economic and demographic changes to produce prenatal sex selection on a massive scale. For example, in the last decade in India more girls have been eliminated before birth each year than are born in the UK. Is prenatal sex selection merely substituting for postnatal selection? Is it decreasing in education and wealth? What are the long run socioeconomic consequences of this unprecedented demographic squeeze working, for instance, through marriage and labour markets? Is banning prenatal sex diagnosis effective? This workshop brought together an international group of scholars to discuss these issues.
Doug Almond (University of Columbia); James Fenske (University of Oxford); Sanchari Roy (University of Warwick and LSE); Sarah Smith (University of Bristol); Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University); Christine Valente (University of Sheffield); Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol)
Conference flyer (pdf, 103kB)
Co-funded by CMPO, ALSPAC and IAS
Christine Valente (University of Sheffield)
Access to Abortion, Investments in Neonatal Health, and Sex-Selection: Evidence from Nepal
CMPO Seminar Series, the Boardroom, 2 Priory Road, 1 pm - 2pm
Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)
A theory of menopause
IAS Verdon Smith room 11 am-12 noon
Estimating sibling peer effects in schooling attainment
Estimating sibling peer effects in schooling attainment - paper (pdf 219 kB)
BIPA seminar room 2.15pm - 3.15 pm