Infant mortality and child nutrition in
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Diane Dancer; Anu Rammohan; Murray D. Smith
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The excess female infant mortality observed in South Asia has typically been attributed to gender discrimination in the intraβhousehold allocation of food and medical care. However, studies on child nutrition find no evidence of gender differences. A natural explanation could be that in