Who benefits more from higher household consumption? The intra-household allocation of nutrients in China.

Previous studies find that human capital investments in boys are less income elastic than investments in girls, attributing this result to favoritism toward boys. I show theoretically that it is plausible for more productive or favored household members to have higher income elasticities. I then inv...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Economics Vol. 86; no. 2; pp. 296 - 313
Main Author:	Mangyo, Eiji
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science June 2008
Subjects:	Resource allocation > Mathematical models Food consumption Mathematical models Consumption (Economics) Child nutrition China
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost