Gender preference and transfers from parents to children: an inter-regional comparison

Edwin S. Wong

International Review of Applied Economics, 2013, vol. 27, issue 1, 61-80

Abstract: This paper examines whether parents exhibit gender preference in the allocation of family resources to their adult children. Gender preference is defined in the context of an altruistic model for inter-vivos transfer from parents to children extended to include educational investment. Data from the Health and Retirement Study (United States) and the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing are used to show that the degree of gender preference differs across these culturally distinct regions. Among Korean families, empirical results point to male preference as sons receive larger inter-vivos transfers and attain higher levels of education compared with daughters. In contrast, the evidence pertaining to gender preference among American families points to daughter preference as inter-vivos transfers and educational investment is generally higher among female adult children.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2012.700702

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