Guilmoto Christophe. (2008). L'économique, le social et le spatial. Les trois dimensions de la surmasculinité juvénile en Inde = Economic, social and spatial dimensions of India's excess of masculinity. Population, 63 (1), p. 93-122. ISSN 0032-4663.
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L'économique, le social et le spatial. Les trois dimensions de la surmasculinité juvénile en Inde = Economic, social and spatial dimensions of India's excess of masculinity
Population, 2008,
63 (1), p. 93-122 ISSN 0032-4663
This article examines the determinants of the current increase in the sex ratio among children in India in the light of regional data. The marked disparities between districts, as revealed by measuring spatial autocorrelation, are a key to understanding these recent developments. They can be used to assess the relative influence of a large number of social and economic characteristics on inter-regional sex ratio variation. The specific effect of economic prosperity is shown to be clearly correlated with the rising sex ratio. Extended modelling of these regional variations, incorporating the spatial dimension, demonstrate the specific roles played by the sociological composition of the population, economic development and diffusion effects. The conclusion offers an interpretation of these various determinants of high sex ratio in [References: 49]
