Determinants of Declining Child Sex Ratio in India: An Empirical Investigation

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Determinants of Declining Child Sex Ratio in India: An Empirical

Investigation

Chakraborty, Lekha S and Sinha, Darshy

National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India, Centre for Development Studies (JNU), Kerala, India

2006

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7602/

MPRA Paper No. 7602, posted 10 Mar 2008 12:18 UTC

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