MORE MISSING WOMEN, FEWER DYING GIRLS: THE IMPACT OF SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ON SEX AT BIRTH AND RELATIVE FEMALE MORTALITY IN TAIWAN
研究发现台湾堕胎合法化后，性别选择性堕胎增加了高胎次男性出生比例，并改变了选择生育的母亲构成；在控制构成变化后，性别选择性堕胎降低了高胎次新生女婴的相对死亡率。
This study finds that the introduction of sex-selective abortion in Taiwan due to the legalization of abortion when prenatal sex-detection technology was already available increased the fraction of males born at higher parities and changed the composition of mothers choosing to give birth. Controlling for compositional changes, we find that access to sex-selective abortion reduced relative neonatal female mortality rates for higher-parity births.