`` `` nutrients available to children are determined largely by intrahousehold allocations . there are a number of reasons why birth order may affect these allocations . a model is developed to estimate critical parameters of parental preferences regarding the allocation of nutrients among their children . latent variable estimates for rural south india indicate that parental preferences have productivity-equity tradeoffs and parents favor older children . the productivity-equity tradeoff , however , is much less for the lean season . therefore , when food is scarcest , parents follow more closely a pure investment strategy , exposing their more vulnerable children to greater malnutrition risk . '' ''
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