Social Class Variations in Gender-Specific Juvenile Mortality in Rural India

该奖项将允许PI分析有关的二级数据 北方平原的男女比例 印度地区。 相对于男孩来说， 在这一地区，南部和南部的男女比例 印度东部几乎是平等的。 PI发布了 可比数据的统计分析，但最近的研究， 其他学者，在国家以及地方一级， 印度，进一步阐明了这种现象的模式和原因， 重男轻女情结 最引人注目的 问题在于阶级差异。 PI认为，在 北印度农村的有产阶级歧视更严重 而不是无产阶级。 其他人则认为 女儿失宠是贫穷的结果，因此， 在社会底层很突出。 该研究将探索 通过分析近年来的 人口普查数据和人种学资料。 这项研究很重要，因为父母的原因 在农民社会中， 对世界人口格局的潜在影响。

This award will allow the PI to analyze secondary data pertaining to the sex ratio (girls versus boys) in the Northern plains region of India. There is a scarcity of girls relative to boys in this region, while proportions of the sexes in southern and eastern India are more nearly equal. The PI has published statistical analyses of comparable data but recent research by other scholars, at the national as well as the local level in India, has shed additional light on patterns and causes of the son preference/daughter disfavor complex. The most compelling issue pertains to class differences. The PI has argued that in rural North India propertied groups discriminate more heavily against daughters than unpropertied groups. Others argue that daughter disfavor is the result of poverty and thus is more prominent in lower social strata. The research will explore class patterns and their determinants through analysis of recent census data and information in ethnographic sources. This research is important because the causes of parental preferences for girls or boys in peasant societies have significant potential effect on world population patterns.