| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w21511
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 21511
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| Missing Unmarried Women |
| Siwan Anderson; Debraj Ray
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| 发表日期 | 2015-08-31
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing women phenomenon. There are approximately 1.5 million missing women between the ages of 30 and 60 years old each year. We find that 35% of these missing women of adult age can be attributed to not being married. These estimates vary by region. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa. By contrast, China has almost no missing unmarried women. We show that 70% of missing unmarried women are of reproductive age and that it is the relatively high mortality rates of these young unmarried women (compared to their married counterparts) that drive this phenomenon. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; Development and Growth
; Development
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21511
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579186
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Siwan Anderson,Debraj Ray. Missing Unmarried Women. 2015.
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