The effects of the gender of children on
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Xiaodong Gong; Arthur van Soest; Ping Zhang
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We analyse expenditure patterns for rural China, focusing on differences between families with boys and girls. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families from 19 Chinese provinces. Following the existing literature, we estimate Engel curves for food and for alcohol, a typical a