Volume 19 - Article 54 | Pages 1831–1850  

How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?

By Debarun Bhattacharjya, Anant Sudarshan, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Ross Shachter, Marcus Feldman

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