Child Gender and Parental Investments In India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?

Barcellos, Silvia Helena; Carvalho, Leandro S.; Lleras‐Muney, Adriana

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“…Indeed, [24] shows that there have been different trends in men's and women's heights in India from the 1960s to 2005: men have grown at about three times the rate of women. Finally, [6] show that compared to children in other developing countries, boys in rural India have an advantage in height relative to girls.…”

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Early life mortality and height in Indian states

Coffey

2015

Economics & Human Biology

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Height is a marker for health, cognitive ability and economic productivity. Recent research on the determinants of height suggests that postneonatal mortality predicts height because it is a measure of the early life disease environment to which a cohort is exposed. This article advances the literature on the determinants of height by examining the role of early life mortality, including neonatal mortality, in India, a large developing country with a very short population. It uses state level variation in neonatal mortality, postneonatal mortality, and pre-adult mortality to predict the heights of adults born between 1970 and 1983, and neonatal and postneonatal mortality to predict the heights of children born between 1995 and 2005. In contrast to what is found in the literature on developed countries, I find that state level variation in neonatal mortality is a strong predictor of adult and child heights. This may be due to state level variation in, and overall poor levels of, pre-natal nutrition in India.

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Early life mortality and height in Indian states

Coffey

2015

Economics & Human Biology

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“…A matched pairs test rejects no effect with a p -value is 0.039. Because this test compares children within age-in-months by sex categories, it also is unaffected by any concern that the WHO reference population may not be appropriate, due to, say, age or gender bias relative to international standards ( Barcellos et al, 2014 ).…”

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Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India

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Spears

2016

Journal of Health Economics

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“…For example, boys in India tend to live in larger households resulting from gender stopping rules (Barcellos et al, 2014, Jensen, 2005. We confirm quantitatively this is the case.…”

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“…Males and females get differential treatment (Lopez Boo and Canon, 2014;Qian, 2008;Barcellos et al 2014). Differences in social treatment affect language and social development (Wester et al 2002).…”

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Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood

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Child Gender and Parental Investments In India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?

Cited by 182 publications

References 51 publications

Early life mortality and height in Indian states

Early life mortality and height in Indian states

Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India

Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood

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