Reconsidering gender bias in intrahousehold allocation in India

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 151-163

  Zimmermann, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EXPENDITURE; GENDER RELATIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 84857338758     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2011.629652     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ahmad, A. and Murdoch, J. (1993) Identifying sex bias in the allocation of household resources: evidence from limited household surveys from Bangladesh. Working paper series, No. 1636, Institute of Economic Research, Harvard University.
2. Asfaw, A., Klasen, S. and Lamanna, F. (2010) Gender gap in parents' financing strategy for hospitalization of their children: evidence from India. Health Economics, 19(3), pp. 265-279.
3. Aslam, M. and Kingdon, G. G. (2008) Gender and household education expenditure in Pakistan. Applied Economics, 40(20), pp. 2573-2591.
4. Bhalotra, S. and Attfield, C. (1998) Intrahousehold resource allocation in rural Pakistan: a semiparametric analysis. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), pp. 463-480.
5. Case, A. and Deaton, A. (2003) Consumption, health, gender, and poverty. Working paper series, No. 3020, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank.
6. Choi, J. and Lee, S-H. (2006) Does prenatal care increase access to child immunization? Gender bias among children in India. Social Science and Medicine, 63(1), pp. 107-117.
7. Deaton, A. (1989) Looking for boy-girl discrimination in household expenditure data. The World Bank Economic Review, 3(1), pp. 1-15.
8. Deaton, A. (1997) The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy (Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press).
9. Desai, S., Vanneman, R. and National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi (2005) India Human Development Survey (IHDS) [Computer file]. ICPSR22626-v8. (Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-06-29. doi:10.3886/ICPSR22626).
10. Fuwa, N., Ito, S., Kubo, K., Kurosaki, T. and Sawada, Y. (2006) Gender discrimination, intrahousehold resource allocation, and importance of spouses' fathers: evidence on household expenditure from rural India. The Developing Economies, 44(4), pp. 398-439.
11. Gibson, J. (1997) Testing for boy-girl discrimination with household expenditure data: results for Papua New Guinea. Applied Economics Letters, 4(10), pp. 643-646.
12. Gibson, J. and Rozelle, S. (2004) Is it better to be a boy? A disaggregated outlay equivalent analysis of gender bias in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Development Studies, 40(4), pp. 115-136.
13. Gong, X., van Soest, A. and Zhang, P. (2005) The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: a semiparametric analysis. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 20(4), pp. 509-527.
14. Haddad, L. and Reardon, T. (1993) Gender bias in the allocation of resources within households in Burkina Faso: a disaggregated outlay equivalent analysis. Journal of Development Studies, 29(2), pp. 260-276.
15. Himaz, R. (2010) Intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure: the case of Sri Lanka. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 58(2), pp. 231-258.
16. Jensen, R. (2002) Fertility preferences and female disadvantage: equal treatment, unequal outcomes? Mimeo, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
17. Kingdon, G.G. (2005) Where has all the bias gone? Detecting gender bias in the intrahousehold allocation of educational expenditure. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(2), pp. 409-451.
18. Kingdon, G.G. (2007) The progress of school education in India. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23(2), pp. 168-195.
19. Klasen, S. (1996) Nutrition, health and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: is there a gender bias? Journal of Development Studies, 32(6), pp. 913-932.
20. Knight, J., Shi, L. and Quheng, D. (2010) Son preference and household income in rural China. Journal of Development Studies, 46(10), pp. 1786-1805.
21. Lancaster, G., Maitra, P. and Ray, R. (2008) Household expenditure patterns and gender bias: evidence from selected Indian states. Oxford Development Studies, 36(2), pp. 133-157.
22. Lee, Y. D. (2008) Do families spend more on boys than on girls? Empirical evidence from rural China. China Economic Review, 19(1), pp. 80-100.
23. Liu, J. and Hsu, C. (2004) Economies of scale, gender discrimination, and cost of children. Applied Economics Letters, 11(6), pp. 377-382.
24. Messer, E. (1997) Intra-household allocation of food and health care: current findings and understandings. Social Science and Medicine, 44(11), pp. 1675-1684.
25. Miller, B.D. (1997) Social class, gender and intra-household food allocations to children in South Asia. Social Science and Medicine, 44(11), pp. 1685-1695.
26. Murdoch, J. J. and Stern, H. S. (1997) Using mixture models to detect sex bias in health outcomes in Bangladesh. Journal of Econometrics, 77(1), pp. 259-276.
27. Rose, E. (2000) Gender bias, credit constraints and time allocation in rural India. The Economic Journal, 110(465), pp. 738-758.
28. Rosenzweig, M. R. and Wolpin, K.I. (2000) Natural 'natural experiments' in economics. Journal of Economic Literature, 38(4), pp. 827-874.
29. Sauerborn, R., Berman, P. and Nougtara, A. (1996) Age bias, but no gender bias, in the intra-household resource allocation for health care in rural Burkina Faso. Health Transition Review, 6(2), pp. 131-145.
30. Subramaniam, R. (1996) Gender-bias in India: the importance of household fixed-effects. Oxford Economic Papers, 48(2), pp. 280-299.
31. Subramanian, S. and Deaton, A. (1991) Gender effects in Indian consumption patterns. Sarvekshana, 14(4), pp. 1-12.