This study is undertaken to test whether or not there exists gender bias in health care utilisation of sick children in Pakistan. Overall, the results are encouraging, as medical consultation has been sought for by a very high proportion (79 percent) of sick children. Moreover, there do not...

This study analyses the factors that determine primary school enrolment in Pakistan, using data generated by Pakistan Socio-economic Survey (PSDE) carried out by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics between March and July 1999. Earlier studies have isolated a number of such factors, but...

In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these respective categories in Pakistan. The hypothesis was that if we...