Where There Is a Will
利用印度农村家庭面板数据，证明宗族延续、从夫居和联合家庭等社会制度显著影响性别生存与健康差异，解释了哈里亚纳邦和拉贾斯坦邦7%、旁遮普邦4%的额外女性死亡率。
Abstract 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.