Gender Differences in Children's Nutrition and Access to Health Care in Pakistan
This article analyses gender differences in children's nutrition and access to health care in Pakistan with a view to uncovering parents motives for the favouring of sons in South Asia. It is found that, among 0 to 5-year-old children, boys are favoured in the allocation of health care. However, girls appear as nourished as or better nourished than boys. This is taken to be evidence that intra-household gender discrimination has primary origins not in parental preference for boys but in differential returns to parents from investment in boys and girls.
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2000
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Authors: | Hazarika, G. |
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Journal of Development Studies. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0022-0388. - Vol. 37.2000, 1, p. 73-92
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Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis Journals |
Subject: | Pakistan | Gender differences | Children's nutrition | Gender discrimination | Health care | Parental preference |
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