Problem 1: Calculating missing women for India at birth: Suppose the sex ratio at birth (males born/females born) is 1.076 in India and 1.059 on average in the developed counties. Suppose the birth rate is India is 25.8 per thousand people. We will calculate how many women go missing at birth (due to excess mortality at birth or not being born together). (a) First get the number of births in India in 2000, if the total population was 1.05 billion (b) If the ratio of male to female births is 1.076, how many females and males were born in India in 2000. (c) How many females should have been born at this over all birth rate for the male female ratio to be 1.059 (the developed country bench mark) (d) How many women go "missing" at birth every year in India Problem 2: "How" and "when" does discminitaion against women happen? Majority of the women are missing by the stage of early childhood. We saw two papers trying to identify if girls get fewer resources than boys in the same family? Which papers were these and what are the findings? Problem 3: Read the economist article titled "The plough and the now". What is the paper trying to explain? What is the main argument of the authors? What do they find in the data? Problem 4: Consider a randomized controlled trial within the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in India. Researchers provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural Indian villages get jobs in the business process outsourcing industry. Because the industry was so new at the time of the study, there was almost no awareness of these jobs, allowing them to in effect exogenously increase women's labor force opportunities from the perspective of rural households. (a) The researchers are trying to identify the impact of increased economic opportunity on women's family decisions. Why is it important to ensure that there was an exogenous increase in women's labor force opportunities