Consumption Smoothing and Excess Female Mortality in Rural India
研究消费平滑与超额女性死亡率的关系，发现有利的降雨冲击对女孩存活概率的提升大于男孩，并采用避免出生漏报偏差的方法。
This paper examines the relationship between consumption smoothing and excess female mortality, by asking if favorable rainfall shocks in childhood increase the survival probabilities of girls to a greater extent than they increase boys' survival probabilities for a sample of rural Indian children. In order to avert the issue of selection bias due to underreporting of births of girls, a methodology is employed that does not require data on births by gender. The results indicate that favorable rainfall shocks increase the ratio of the probability that a girl survives to the probability that a boy survives. © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology