The extended family and intrahousehold allocation

摘要: This paper examines the role of extended family on investments in children, using data from a retrospective survey three generations rural Philippines. Econometric results show that interactions between grandparent characteristics and child gender significantly affect distribution proposed land bequests sons daughters. However, grandparents gender-specific children's education only resource-constrained families. Family-specific effects are more important determining pattern investment children within nuclear family, while individual heterogeneity rather than family-specific unobservables dominates results. Interactions parent determinants both transfers to, educational in, children. Sons clearly favored terms inheritance, although daughters better educated fathers, with grandfathers, may also have an advantage. The secular expansion has contributed much to increased attainment women. Better fathers favor education, mothers sons. These patterns consistent equity efficiency objectives, under resource constraints, parents' risk-diversification strategies.