Who benefits more from higher household consumption? The intra-household allocation of nutrients in China.
Previous studies find that human capital investments in boys are less income elastic than investments in girls, attributing this result to favoritism toward boys. I show theoretically that it is plausible for more productive or favored household members to have higher income elasticities. I then inv...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Economics Vol. 86; no. 2; pp. 296 - 313 |
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Elsevier Science
June 2008
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