Parental Actions and Siblings’ Inequality

Momi Dahan and Alejandro Gaviria

No 4150, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1998-12
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Journal Article: Parental actions and sibling inequality (2003)
Working Paper: Parental Actions and Siblings' Inequality (1998)
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