The extended family and intrahousehold allocation: inheritance and investments in children in the rural Philippines

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dc.creatorQuisumbing, Agnes R.
dc.date1995
dc.date2024-10-24T12:47:11Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:47:11Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:29:11Z
dc.descriptionThis paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, using data from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines. Econometric results show that interactions between grandparent characteristics and child gender significantly affect the distribution of proposed land bequests between sons and daughters. However, grandparents significantly affect gender-specific investments in children's education only in resource-constrained families. Family-specific effects are more important in determining the pattern of investment in children within the nuclear family, while individual heterogeneity rather than family-specific unobservables dominates the extended family results. Interactions between parent characteristics and child gender are important determinants of both land transfers to, and educational investments in, children. Sons are clearly favored in terms of land inheritance, although daughters of better educated fathers, and with better educated grandfathers, may also have an advantage. The secular expansion of education has contributed much to the increased educational attainment of women. Better educated fathers favor daughters in terms of education, while mothers with more land favor sons. These patterns are consistent with both equity and efficiency objectives, investment in children under resource constraints, and parents' risk-diversification strategies.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/157080
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/105850
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceQuisumbing, Agnes R. 1995. The extended family and intrahousehold allocation: inheritance and investments in children in the rural Philippines. FCND Discussion Paper 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157080
dc.subjectfamilies
dc.subjecteconomic aspects
dc.subjectsocial conditions
dc.subjectgender relations
dc.subjectland tenure
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectproperty rights
dc.subjecteducation
dc.titleThe extended family and intrahousehold allocation: inheritance and investments in children in the rural Philippines
dc.typeWorking Paper

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