Where There Is a Will: Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families
利用印度农村家庭面板数据，研究宗族延续、从夫居和联合家庭等社会制度如何解释存活率和健康结果的性别差异，发现这些制度可解释哈里亚纳邦和拉贾斯坦邦7%的额外女性死亡率。
This paper demonstrates that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality, and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India. Tests using panel data from rural households support this explanation, which accounts for 7 percent of excess female mortality in Haryana and Rajasthan and 4 percent in Punjab. An institutional explanation suggests limits on the role for public policy in addressing large sex differences in health and mortality outcomes.