Is it Better to be a Boy? A Disaggregated Outlay Equivalent Analysis of Gender Bias in Papua New Guinea.
The demographic evidence of gender bias in many countries has provided an impetus for finding ways to study the status of women in developing countries. Because of the lack of accurate intrahousehold data, Deaton {1989} introduced a method for using household expenditure data to infer discrimination...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 115 - 137 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
April 2004
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