Interesting nonfiction book all about the consequences of the practice in certain countries (China, India, and others) of choosing boys over girls by various means (sex-selective abortion, infanticide, etc.). Goes into the demographic consequences in-depth, and there were a lot of considerations ...
As someone takes gender issues very seriously, this book has greatly expanded my view on sex selective abortion and the effects of imbalance sex ratio on women's welfare. Economists wrongly assumed that scarcity of females due to sex selective abortion would make females very valuable. Despite th...