Looking for Boy-Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditure Data |
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| Authors: | Deaton Angus |
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| Institution: | The author is a professor of public affairs and of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and is a consultant to the Population and Human Resources Department of the World Bank. The author thanks Dwayne Benjamin who provided for excellent research assistance. He is grateful to him and to members of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University for helpful comments. This is a revised and shortened version of Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper 39, "The Allocation of Goods within the Household: Adults, Children, and Gender", June 1987. The results from Thailand were not included in the working paper. |
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| Abstract: | The ability to test for discrimination in the allocation ofgoods between boys and girls is hampered by a lack of data onintrahousehold distribution. The analysis presented here allowsinferences about intrahousehold allocation to be made from household-levelexpenditure data. For a given level of income, families withchildren will spend less on adult goods in order to purchasechildren's goods. If household purchasing favors boys over girls,smaller expenditures on adult goods would be made by familieswith boys as compared with those with girls. A method for determining"adult" goods is described, and the procedure for detectinggender bias is applied to data from Côte d'lvoire andThailand. The data show no evidence of discrimination betweenboys and girls in Côte d'lvoire, and a small and statisticallyinsignificant bias in favor of boys in Thailand. |
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