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From nutrition to aspirations and self-efficacy: Gender bias over time among children in four countries
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We use data on children at ages 8, 12 and 15 from Young Lives, a cohort study of 12,000 children across Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam, to document the presence of a gender gap across a wide variety of indicators, including nutrition, education, aspirations, subjective well-being and psychosocial competencies. First, we find that there is considerable heterogeneity across countries, ages and indicators in whether there is any gender bias and whether it is in favour of b...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ Department for International Development (DFID)
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Dercon, S
Grant:
R8544
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Funding agency for:
Singh, A
Grant:
R8544
Department for International Development
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Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Young Lives Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9781904427810
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:7813
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- Young Lives
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
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Oxford OX1 3TB, UK
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E-mail: younglives@younglives.org.uk
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