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

这项奖励将使PI能够分析与印度北部平原地区性别比例(女孩与男孩)有关的次要数据。在这个地区，女孩比男孩更稀缺，而在印度南部和东部，性别比例几乎相等。PI发表了对可比数据的统计分析，但最近印度国家和地方层面的其他学者的研究进一步揭示了偏爱儿子/不喜欢女儿的情结的模式和原因。最引人注目的问题与阶级差异有关。印度人民党辩称，在印度北部农村，有财产的群体比没有财产的群体对女儿的歧视更严重。其他人则认为，女儿的不受欢迎是贫穷的结果，因此在较低的社会阶层中更为突出。这项研究将通过分析最近的人口普查数据和人种学资料中的信息来探索阶级模式及其决定因素。这项研究之所以重要，是因为农民社会中父母偏爱女孩或男孩的原因对世界人口模式有重大的潜在影响。

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.