Sex-Selective Prenatal Care in Other Countries
| Coefficient on Male in various countries | Dependent Variable | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prenatal Care (1=Yes, 0=No) (1) | Number of Prenatal visits (2) | Tetanus Shot (1=Yes, 0=No) (3) | Number of Tetanus Shots (4) | Iron Pills (1=Yes, 0=No) (5) | Nonhome Delivery (1=Yes, 0=No) (6) | |
| China | 0.046* (0.027) | 0.346* (0.205) | na | na | na | na |
| Bangladesh | 0.003 (0.009) | 0.076** (0.037) | 0.028*** (0.009) | 0.039* (0.021) | na | 0.001 (0.003) |
| Pakistan | 0.018 (0.015) | 0.184* (0.100) | 0.020 (0.016) | 0.016 (0.039) | 0.026* (0.015) | 0.006 (0.014) |
| Pakistan (Punjab region) | 0.019 (0.021) | 0.268* (0.152) | 0.015 (0.023) | 0.014 (0.056) | 0.048** (0.022) | 0.026 (0.020) |
| Sri Lanka | 0.002 (0.008) | na | 0.010 (0.016) | na | na | 0.014 (0.014) |
| Thailand | 0.005 (0.017) | na | 0.020 (0.022) | na | na | 0.014 (0.018) |
| Ghana | −0.013** (0.006) | 0.010 (0.078) | 0.004 (0.009) | 0.003 (0.024) | 0.005 (0.010) | 0.003 (0.010) |
Robust standard errors in parentheses
↵*** p<0.01,
↵** p<0.05,
↵* p<0.1
Notes: Sample is restricted to most recent birth of ever-married women (younger than 52 in China and ages 13–49 in Bangladesh) within five years previous to the survey. Tetanus information and wealth index is not available for China. Wherever available, controls include state fixed effects, birth year fixed effects, survey year fixed effects, mother’s age, mother’s education, dummy for urban, birth order, and existing sex ratio of children (defined as the ratio of boys to the total number of births prior to the most recent one). National sample weights are used in all regressions. Due to the One Child Policy in China, we do not control for existing sex ratio and we include pregnancy number rather than birth order.