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Sex Differentials in Mortality: A Corollary of Son Preference?

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  • ZEBA ASATHAR

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics,Islamabad.)

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The issue of sex differentials in mortality received attention as early as 1901 when the Supenntendents of Census remarked on the unusually high sex ratios found in the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the North West Census of India 1901. More thorough investigations of the phenomenon were begun in the Sixties when detailed examinations of sex ratios in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh attributed their excess to higher female mortality (Vi:iaria (1967); Rukanuddin (1967); Bangladesh Retrospective Survey of Fertility and Mortality (BRSFM) (1977)]. A partial explanation was also found in the omission of female members of households from census counts because of culturally based reluctance to give out names of female household members to enumerators who were strangers plus understating of girls' ages as some form of 'protection' of nubile daughters from the outside world.

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  • Zeba Asathar, 1987. "Sex Differentials in Mortality: A Corollary of Son Preference?," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 26(4), pages 555-568.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:26:y:1987:i:4:p:555-568
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    1. Zafar Mahmood, 1998. "A Social Sector Strategy for Pakistan," PIDE-Working Papers 1998:163, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    2. Naushin Mahmood & Mir Annice Mahmood, 1995. "Gender Differences in Child Health-care Practices: Evidence from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, 1990-91," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 34(4), pages 693-707.
    3. Karol J. Krotki, 1991. "The Six Questions that Do Not Go Away," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 30(4), pages 649-667.
    4. Hina Nazli & Shahnaz Hamid, 1999. "Concerns of Food Security, Role of Gender, and Intrahousehold Dynamics in Pakistan," PIDE-Working Papers 1999:175, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    5. Zafar Mahmood, 1998. "A Social Sector Strategy for Pakistan," PIDE Research Report 1998:163, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    6. Zeba A. Sathar & Cynthia B. Lloyd, 1994. "Who Gets Primary Schooling in Pakistan: Inequalities among and within Families," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 33(2), pages 103-134.

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