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More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan / Ming-Jen Lin, Nancy Qian, Jin-Tan Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lin, Ming-Jen.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14541.
- NBER working paper series no. w14541
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
- Summary:
- This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion accounts for almost all of the observed increase in SRB during the 1980s and decreased EFM by approximately 20%. Approximately ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion reduced overall fertility, it increased fertility for older mothers.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2008.
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