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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | IS IT BETTER TO BE A BOY? A DISAGGREGATED OUTLAY EQUIVALENT ANALYSIS OF GENDER BIAS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Autores: | Gibson,   John; Rozelle,   Scott.
Data: | 2002-07-02
Ano: | 2000
Palavras-chave: | Labor and Human Capital.
Resumo: | Discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls within households in Papua New Guinea is examined using Deaton’s (1989) outlay-equivalent ratio method. Adding a boy to the household reduces expenditure on adult goods by as much as would a nine-tenths reduction in total outlay per member, but girls have no effect on adult goods expenditure. The hypothesis of Haddad and Reardon (1993) that gender bias is inversely related to the importance of female labour in agricultural production is not supported. There is no evidence of bias against girls in the urban sector.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

4972

http://purl.umn.edu/11990

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

University of California, Davis&gt;Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics&gt;Working Papers

Working Paper Number 00-023

Formato:

30

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