How pervasive are sex differentials in childhood nutritional levels in South Asia?

Basu, Aparna

doi:10.1080/19485565.1993.9988833

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“…Female infant and child mortality are markedly higher than male mortality (Collaborators, 2010). Girls in India also experience lower access to health services (Khera et al, 2014), lower rates of immunization (Borooah, 2004;Singh, 2012), and worse performance on the proximal indicators of nutritional status, such as breastfeeding (Fledderjohann et al, 2014) as well as feeding practices and household allocation of resources towards children (Basu, 1993;Borooah, 2004;Haddad, Pena, Nishida, Quisumbing, & Slack, 1996). Discrimination in terms of care, access to health services, or other health inputs would influence nutritional status as these are key determinants of undernutrition (Black et al, 2013b).…”

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Is there a female disadvantage in child undernutrition in South India?: Exploring gender differences in height in infancy, childhood, and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Krishna¹,

Perkins

et al. 2018

American J Hum Biol

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Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether gender‐based disparities in health and well‐being extend to a female disadvantage in height in infancy, childhood, and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Methods Using longitudinal data from the Young Lives study in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India, linear mixed effects and linear regression models examined associations between gender and height and the modifying influences of birth order and older siblings’ gender composition. Results In the younger cohort, at 6‐18 months, girls were 0.17‐SDs of height for age z‐scores (HAZ) taller than boys (P = .01). In the same cohort, the girls’ advantage in HAZ was attenuated to 0.02 (P = .58) by 11‐12 years. In the older cohort, the difference in HAZ between girls and boys was 0.04 (P = .61) at the beginning of the study when they were 7‐8 years old; by 18‐19 years of age, the difference had switched, with boys being 0.22‐SD (P = .05) taller. There was no difference by birth order except in the younger cohort in which children with 2 or more siblings experienced height deficits compared with only children at 7‐8 and 11‐12 years. There was no differential effect of gender by birth order nor by the gender composition of siblings. Conclusion A female disadvantage in undernutrition, as manifest in differences between girls and boys in HAZ, did not appear until later ages. Identifying how and why gendered disparities in standardized height emerge in late adolescence will help target more resources to improve conditions for girls and women in south India.

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Section: No Female Disadvantage In Height In Childhoodmentioning

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Is there a female disadvantage in child undernutrition in South India?: Exploring gender differences in height in infancy, childhood, and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Krishna¹,

Perkins

et al. 2018

American J Hum Biol

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“…This last observation, however, has not been supported empirically. For example, studies by Basu (1989Basu ( , 1993, Pelletier (1998) and Mishra et al (1999) find no evidence of any gender discrimination in nutrition, even in those Indian states where there is excess female infant mortality and low sex ratios for females. These studies suggest that the link between malnutrition and gender bias is not so clear-cut.…”

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The link between infant mortality and child nutrition in India: is there any evidence of a gender bias?

Maitra

Rammohan

2011

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

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In this paper, using the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey data-set from India, we study whether there are gender differentials in infant mortality and child nutrition. Our analysis finds no evidence of gender differentials in survival probability. However, conditional upon surviving the first year, girls are found to have poorer height-for-age outcomes. There are also significant regional differences in both survival probabilities and nutritional outcomes. We show that the height-for-age z-score is significantly lower for higher birth-order children (later-born children), and the effect is monotonically increasing. Finally, parental education and household wealth have statistically significant effects on both survival outcomes and child nutrition.

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“…Basu (1993) analyzing field data from India and having a review of literature on household allocation of food in South Asia, where anti-female discrimination is believed to be widespread, found no evidence that female children are discriminated in feeding. Mishra et al (1999) analyzed data from national survey of India and found that male children and female children are about equally likely to be stunted and underweight but male children are slightly more likely than female children to be wasted.…”

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Gender Analysis of Malnutrition: A Case Study of School-Going Children in Bahawalpur

Khan

Raza

2015

Asian Development Policy Review

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How pervasive are sex differentials in childhood nutritional levels in South Asia?

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Is there a female disadvantage in child undernutrition in South India?: Exploring gender differences in height in infancy, childhood, and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Is there a female disadvantage in child undernutrition in South India?: Exploring gender differences in height in infancy, childhood, and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

The link between infant mortality and child nutrition in India: is there any evidence of a gender bias?

Gender Analysis of Malnutrition: A Case Study of School-Going Children in Bahawalpur

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