TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lin,Ming-Jen
AU  - Qian,Nancy
AU  - Liu,Jin-Tan
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and  Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2008; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14541
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14541
ER  -