PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jain, Tarun
TI  - Where There Is a Will
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.49.2.393
DP  - 2014 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 393--423
VI  - 49
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/393.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/393.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2014 Mar 31; 49
AB  - This paper demonstrates that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality, and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India. Tests using panel data from rural households support this explanation, which accounts for 7 percent of excess female mortality in Haryana and Rajasthan and 4 percent in Punjab. An institutional explanation suggests limits on the role for public policy in addressing large sex differences in health and mortality outcomes.