The Extent and Causes of Female Disadvantage in Mortality: An Overview = 1
Chapter I: Differential Mortality by Sex from Birth to Adolescence: The Historical Experience of the West (1750-1930) =17
Dominique Tabutin, Michel Willems
Chapter II: Factors Determining the Sex Ratio at Birth = 53
Ingrid Waldron
Chapter III: Sex Differences in Infant and Early Childhood Mortality: Major Causes of Death and Possible Biological Causes = 64
Ingrid Waldron
Chapter IV: Levels and Trends of Sex Differentials in Infant, Child and Under-Five Mortality = 84
United Nations Secretariat
Chapter V: Malnutrition, Morbidity and Child Mortality in Developing Countries = 109
David Pelletier
Chapter VI: Sex Differentials in the Nutritional Status of Young Children = 133
A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt, Fred Arnold
Chapter VII: Can Use of Health Care Explain Sex Differentials in Child Mortality in the Developing World? = 154
Ian Timaeus, Katie Harris, Francesca Fairbairn
Chapter VIII: The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health and Survival Do Girls Benefit? = 179
John Cleland, Katie Harris
Chapter IX: Son Preference, Family Building Process and Child Mortality = 208
Minja Kim Choe, Ian Diamond, Fiona Alison Steele (et al.)
Chapter X: Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Is There a Gender Bias? = 223
Jere R. Behrman
Chapter I: Differential Mortality by Sex from Birth to Adolescence: The Historical Experience of the West (1750-1930) =17
Dominique Tabutin, Michel Willems
Chapter II: Factors Determining the Sex Ratio at Birth = 53
Ingrid Waldron
Chapter III: Sex Differences in Infant and Early Childhood Mortality: Major Causes of Death and Possible Biological Causes = 64
Ingrid Waldron
Chapter IV: Levels and Trends of Sex Differentials in Infant, Child and Under-Five Mortality = 84
United Nations Secretariat
Chapter V: Malnutrition, Morbidity and Child Mortality in Developing Countries = 109
David Pelletier
Chapter VI: Sex Differentials in the Nutritional Status of Young Children = 133
A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt, Fred Arnold
Chapter VII: Can Use of Health Care Explain Sex Differentials in Child Mortality in the Developing World? = 154
Ian Timaeus, Katie Harris, Francesca Fairbairn
Chapter VIII: The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health and Survival Do Girls Benefit? = 179
John Cleland, Katie Harris
Chapter IX: Son Preference, Family Building Process and Child Mortality = 208
Minja Kim Choe, Ian Diamond, Fiona Alison Steele (et al.)
Chapter X: Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Is There a Gender Bias? = 223
Jere R. Behrman