Do families spend more on boys than on girls? Empirical evidence from rural China

China Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-100

  LEE, Yiu fai Daniel ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Economics of gender; Household production and intrahousehold allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149124799     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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