Gender Differences in Children's Nutrition and Access to Health Care in Pakistan

Authors

Gautam Hazarika, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2000

Abstract

This article analyses gender differences in children's nutrition and access to health care in Pakistan with a view to uncovering parents motives for the favouring of sons in South Asia. It is found that, among 0 to 5-year-old children, boys are favoured in the allocation of health care. However, girls appear as nourished as or better nourished than boys. This is taken to be evidence that intra-household gender discrimination has primary origins not in parental preference for boys but in differential returns to parents from investment in boys and girls.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Hazarika, G., 2000. Gender differences in children's nutrition and access to health care in Pakistan. The Journal of Development Studies, 37(1), pp.73-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/713600059

Publication Title

The Journal of Development Studies

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/713600059