This article investigates the possible existence of a nonlinear link between female disadvantage in natality and education. To this end, we devise a theoretical model based on the key role of social interaction in explaining people's acquisition of preferences, which justifies the existence of a nonmonotonic relationship between female disadvantage in natality and education. The empirical validity of the proposed model is examined for the case of India, using district-level data. In this context, our econometric analysis pays particular attention to the role of spatial dependence to avoid any potential problems of misspecification. The results confirm that the relationship between the sex ratio at birth and education in India follows an inverted U-shape. This finding is robust to the inclusion of additional explanatory variables in the analysis, and to the choice of the spatial weight matrix used to quantify the spatial interdependence between the sample districts.
The missing link between parents' preferences and daughters' survival: the moderator effect of societal discrimination. World Development, 78, pp. 372-385. (doi:10.1016Development, 78, pp. 372-385. (doi:10. /j.worlddev.2015 This is the author's final accepted version.There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/111477/
In this paper we present an innovative approach for ranking profiles of capability sets on the basis of equality. We begin by introducing and defining the concept of common capability sets as all those functioning vectors that are shared by certain subgroups of the population under study. This allows us to rank profiles of capability sets without the sometimes stringent requirement of having a complete binary relation that orders the capability sets from the worst-off to the better-off. In order to overcome some of the shortcomings found in similar approaches, we then introduce a capability set ranking that takes into account both the intrinsic and the instrumental value of freedom.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.