Human capital investments and family composition

Antoine Bommier and Sylvie Lambert

Research Unit Working Papers from Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA

Abstract: We explore how human capital investment of a child is affected by the number and the gender of his/her siblings. We test for two alternative explanations : competition for scarce resources versus direct interactions between siblings. We provide an empirical application using Brazilian data.

Keywords: Human capital investment; sibling rivalry; child labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I29 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2003-04
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