Abstract
With gender discrimination still prevalent in most parts of the world, governments and the United Nations are adopting policies to eliminate all forms of discrimination by 2030. Although most policy interventions attempt to reduce gender discrimination in the workplace and educational attainment, little is known about the extent of gender discrimination within the family. In this paper, I study whether girls and boys are treated equally in Bangladesh by examining the extent of the difference in standardized BMI between infant boys and infant girls of the same household. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys of Bangladesh, my results show that the standardized BMI of infant girls are lower than that of boys of the same household, and the presence of more children in the household makes the standardized BMI of girls even lower.
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