Have Advances in Prenatal Sex Determination Erased the Nutritional Disadvantage for Chinese Girls?
Bishop, John A.; Liu, Haiyong; & Zeager, Lester A. (2008). Have Advances in Prenatal Sex Determination Erased the Nutritional Disadvantage for Chinese Girls?
Bishop, John A.; Liu, Haiyong; & Zeager, Lester A. (2008). Have Advances in Prenatal Sex Determination Erased the Nutritional Disadvantage for Chinese Girls?
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This paper investigates whether technological advances in prenatal sex determination have led to postnatal nutrient intake equality between boys and girls in China, despite an exceptionally high ratio of boys to girls at birth. Dominance methods applied to data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Surveys (CHNS, selected years 1991 to 2004) reveal no bias in calorie consumption between girls and boys. We find a significant protein bias toward boys in 1991, but it disappears by 2004.
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Bishop, John A.
Liu, Haiyong
Zeager, Lester A.
2008
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