Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and … birth cohorts of the 1940s among black girls, the rate of increase tended to accelerate among all four ethnic/gender groups …

This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970 …-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In … determinants of changes in this ratio, using regression analysis. The results indicate that gender equity in quality …

This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the … equalizer for gender anymore than it has been shown to be by class. The results here indicate that growth exhibits a negative …

on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers … disadvantage than that engendered solely by gender. These were the consequences which stemmed from children being born to …This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …