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Parental Investment in Children’s Human Capital in Urban China
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Abstract We test the extent of parental forgone consumption used instead to invest in children’s human capital by use of intrahousehold resource allocation models. Using an unusual, comprehensive data set for urban China, we find more spending on boys aged 13-15 but more on girls aged 16-18, suggesting that... mehr
We test the extent of parental forgone consumption used instead to invest in children’s human capital by use of intrahousehold resource allocation models. Using an unusual, comprehensive data set for urban China, we find more spending on boys aged 13-15 but more on girls aged 16-18, suggesting that standard human capital theories and traditional perceptions of gender bias do not completely explain educational expenditure decisions. The evidence from urban China is consistent, though, with human capital models which consider parental intertemporal preferences. Also, our findings suggest that the perceived bias in favour of sons exists weakly in contemporary urban China.... weniger
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 2089-2111
Zeitschriftentitel
Applied Economics, 38 (2006) 18
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500427353
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)