Reference using Indian district data:
Kishor, Sunita.
1993. "May God Give Sons to All: Gender and Child Mortality in India."
American Sociological Review 58(April): 247-265.
Abstract: Using 1981 cross-sectional data on 350+ districts in India, tested is
whether female (F) labor force participation & kinship structures explain gender
differences in the mortality of children ages 0-5. The relationship of mortality
differentials to economic development, socioeconomic stratification, rice
cultivation, & region is also examined. Results suggest that kinship structures
& F labor force participation are important factors in explaining gender
differences in child mortality; further these factors reinforce each other to
produce especially high sex differentials in mortality. While agricultural,
industrial, & urban development appear to reduce the relative survival of Fs,
male literacy levels seem unrelated to F survival. Rice cultivation consistently
enhances F survival. Gender differences in child mortality between northern &
southern India remain unexplained.
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