Patrilocality and Missing Women
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Recent scholarship has documented an alarming increase in the sex ratio at birth in parts of East Asia, South Asia and the South Caucuses. I argue that parents engage in sex selection because of patrilocal norms that dictate elderly coresidence between parents and sons. Sex ratios and coresidence rates are positively correlated when looking across countries, within countries across districts, and within districts across ethnic groups. I examine the origins of patrilocality, and find it is most common among ethnic groups which practiced intensive agriculture. I conclude with an examination of how parents respond to changes in public pension programs. * Corresponding author: [email protected]. I am deeply indebted to Monica Das Gupta for critical insight throughout the project. I would also like to thank Hoyt Bleakely, David Card, Janet Currie, Larry Katz, Ronald Lee, Avi Simhon, and Charles Westoff for helpful discussions. Excellent research assistance was provided by Susan Schwartz, Noam Buckman, and Martha Jachimski. 2
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