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THE DISAPPEARING NUTRITIONAL BIAS AGAINST CHINESE GIRLS
Author(s) -
BISHOP JOHN A.,
LIU HAIYONG,
ZEAGER LESTER A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2010.00200.x
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , china , economics , consumption (sociology) , demographic economics , demography , geography , biology , sociology , social science , biochemistry , archaeology , gene
This paper investigates whether China has reached postnatal nutrient intake equality between boys and girls, despite an exceptionally high ratio of boys to girls at birth, after dramatic technological advances in prenatal sex determination, rapid increases in income, and improved educational opportunities for females. Dominance methods applied to data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Surveys (selected years 1991–2004) reveal no bias in calorie consumption between girls and boys. We find some weak evidence of protein bias toward boys in 1991, but it disappeared by 2004. ( JEL I32, O15, N35)