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Do boys eat better than girls in India? Longitudinal evidence on dietary diversity and food consumption disparities among children and adolescents
- Source :
- Economics & Human Biology. 25:99-111
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- This paper examines the dynamics of gender-based disparities in the intra-household allocation of food during childhood and adolescence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana by using three rounds of longitudinal data from two cohorts. While boys are advantaged at all ages (except for the Younger Cohort at 12 years old), the pro-boy gap widens markedly at 15 years old. Specifically, mid-adolescent girls tend to consume fewer protein- and vitamin-rich foods such as eggs, legumes, root vegetables and fruit. This result is robust to gender differences between adolescents in terms of puberty onset, school enrolment, time use and dietary behaviours. Finally, gender disparities in dietary diversity during early and mid-adolescence do not vary by maternal education, poverty or place of residence, whilst they are moderated by levels of caregiver's educational aspirations at 15 years old.
- Subjects :
- INDICATORS
Male
0301 basic medicine
Pediatrics
Economics
Intra-household dynamics
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences
Adolescents
Cohort Studies
0302 clinical medicine
Business & Economics
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
EDUCATION
Child, Preschool
Cohort
GENDER BIAS
Female
Psychology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Algorithms
Puberty onset
COUNTRIES
NUTRITIONAL-STATUS
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Dietary diversity
Food consumption
India
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
medicine
Humans
1402 Applied Economics
HEALTH SURVEYS
DECLINE
Science & Technology
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Poverty
Gender
INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION
Feeding Behavior
medicine.disease
Diet
Maternal education
Malnutrition
Socioeconomic Factors
UNDERNUTRITION
Residence
ADEQUACY
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1570677X
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Economics & Human Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....51719e49803ca7d4080685d305384ad9