Measuring sex-selective abortion: How many women abort?
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- Aditi Dimri & Véronique Gille & Philipp Ketz, 2021. "Measuring sex-selective abortion: How many women abort?," PSE Working Papers halshs-03495964, HAL.
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Sex ratio; Sex-selective abortion; Measurement; India; Constrained maximum likelihood estimation; Random constraint(s);All these keywords.
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