Parental Actions and Siblings’ Inequality

Serie

  • Research Department Publications

Resumen

  • The model presented in the paper generates important implications concerning how the allocation of resources between children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income families tend to channel their resources into a few children whereas rich families (and perhaps very poor families as well) tend to allocate resources more evenly. As a result, poor and middle- income families tend to generate more inequality relative to richer families.

fecha de publicación

  • 1998-12

Issue

  • 4150