摘要: Using household survey data from the United States, Brazil, and Ghana, authors examine relationship between paternal education child height, an indicator of health nutritional status. In all three countries, mother has a bigger effect on her daughter's height; education, in contrast, impact son's height. There are apparently, differences allocation resources depending gender these vary with parent. relative to other women, woman who is better educated than husband height daughter son. women's nonlabor income positive but not health. If parents indicators power bargaining game, then results suggest that resource allocations reflect both technological rearing preferences parents.