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Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian countries

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Title Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian countries
 
Creator SINGH, A
 
Subject RURAL INDIA
NUTRITIONAL-STATUS
SEX DIFFERENTIALS
HEALTH-CARE
MORTALITY
FAMILY
DISCRIMINATION
OPPORTUNITY
PAKISTAN
FOOD
 
Description Using households with a pair of male-female siblings from DHS surveys, this paper estimates gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children (aged 1-5 years) from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I find substantial level of gender based within-household inequality in immunization status (with large inter-country variations) in the countries studied. Further, I estimate household fixed-effects models for immunization status and find significant difference between the immunization status of male and female children (with female children at a disadvantaged position) in India and Nepal.
 
Publisher ECONOMICS BULLETIN
 
Date 2016-01-15T11:01:53Z
2016-01-15T11:01:53Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier ECONOMICS BULLETIN, 35(2)911-923
1545-2921
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/18413
 
Language en