Does Religion Reduce Missing Women in Crisis? Evidence from China’s Famine

This project investigates the role of Buddhism in mitigating sex imbalances during and after China's Great Famine (1958–1966). This project uses four sources of data: China's national population census in 1990, Clan Culture Database, the public data from National Religious Affairs Administration in China, and OSAC Religious mat data from the Center on Religion and Chinese Society (CRCS) at Purdue University.

本研究考察了佛教在中国大饥荒（1958—1966）期间及饥荒结束后对缓解性别失衡的作用。本研究采用四类数据来源：1990年中国全国人口普查数据、宗族文化数据库（Clan Culture Database）、中国国家宗教事务局公开数据，以及普渡大学宗教与中国社会研究中心（CRCS）提供的OSAC宗教材料数据（OSAC Religious mat data）。