| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12712 |
| DP12712 The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India | |
| Selim Gulesci; Sonia Bhalotra; Abhishek Chakravarty | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-02-12 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We provide evidence that dowry costs motivate son-preferring behaviors in India. Since gold is an integral part of dowry, we study parental responses to shocks in the world gold price. Exploiting monthly variation in gold prices across 35 years, as well as an event study around a massive gold price hike in December 1979, we find that monthly changes in gold prices lead to an increase in girl relative to boy neonatal mortality and that the surviving girls are shorter. After the introduction of prenatal sex determination technology, we find that gold price shocks increase female foeticide. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Dowry Gold price Son preference Missing girls Neonatal mortality Commodity price shocks |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12712 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541524 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Selim Gulesci,Sonia Bhalotra,Abhishek Chakravarty. DP12712 The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India. 2018. |
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