Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation in India
利用印度教育支出数据，检验数据聚合、数据可靠性和统计方法是否影响对儿童性别歧视的检测。发现全印度层面女孩歧视随年龄增长且稳健，但邦级结果更敏感。
Finding evidence of gender discrimination among children in the intrahousehold allocation of goods has often proven to be difficult. This article uses data on education expenditures in India to test whether data aggregation, data reliability and the statistical method used help explain this pattern. Results suggest that discrimination against girls is increasing in age and robust to the statistical method and the expenditure measure at the all-India level, although state-level results are more sensitive. I find that data aggregation and statistical method are important factors in detecting gender bias, while data reliability does not seem to play a major role.