Articlegreen2012

The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India

50 citations0/0 files storedFaculty Digital Archive (New York University Florence)

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Abstract

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India.Estimates suggest that among the stock of women who could potentially be alive today, over 25 million are "missing".Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key explanations.We provide a decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India.While we do not dispute the existence of severe gender bias at young ages, our computations yield some striking findings.First, the vast majority of missing women in India are of adult age.Second, there is significant variation in the distribution of missing women by age across different states.Missing girls at birth are most pervasive in some northwestern states, but excess female mortality at older ages is relatively low.In contrast, some northeastern states have the highest excess female mortality in adulthood but the lowest number of missing women at birth.The state-wise variation in the distribution of missing women across the age groups makes it very difficult to draw simple conclusions to explain the missing women phenomenon in India.20 6.1 131 40.8 47 14.8 122 38.2 Assam 0 0 21 26.1 23 28.6 36 45.3 Uttar Pradesh 81 14.2 181 31.7 125 22.0 183 32.0 Himachal Pradesh 3 14.2 3 16.6 3 14.0 10 55.2 Orissa 23 19.9 19 16.5 21 18.4 52 45.3 West Bengal 2 1.1 37 17.3 46 21.5 129 60.0 Karnataka 20 16.6 20 16.7 22 19.0 57 47.7 Rajasthan 48 43.4 30 26.8 12 10.8 21 19.0 Gujarat 25 25.8 23 24.2 14 14.7 34 35.3 Andhra Pradesh 25 17.1 20 14.0 23 15.8 77 53.1 Tamil Nadu 8 9.5 5 6.1 15 17.1 59 67.2 Kerala 8 20.3 2 4.4 2 6.1 29 69.3 India 265 11.9 558 25.0 398 17.8 1013 45.3 TABLE 4. Missing Women by Indian State and Age Group, 2003 (in 000s) Sources.National Family Health Survey (2005)(2006), United Nations, World Health Organization, Sample Registration System (Government of India).

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 50 citations exist upstream.

References

1994Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases 1987Selective Discrimination against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India 2017More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing 2006Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1·1 million households 2002Who’s Afraid of Legal Pluralism?2003"MISSING WOMEN": REVISITING THE DEBATE 2010Missing Women: Age and Disease 1991Excess Female Mortality and the Balance of the Sexes in the Population: An Estimate of the Number of "Missing Females"

Cited by

2020Gender discrimination in health-care expenditure: An analysis across the age-groups with special focus on the elderly 2018Missing Unmarried Women 2022Widowhood and cognition among older women in India: New insights on widowhood duration and mediators 2017Sociologies of India's missing children 2022Girls unwanted – The role of parents’ child-specific sex preference for children’s early mental development

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.