| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29912 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29912 |
| Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children | |
| Rebecca Dizon-Ross; Seema Jayachandran | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-04-04 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We compare mothers’ and fathers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous literature’s approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers’ versus fathers’ income. Our method, which we apply in Uganda, allows us to estimate gender differences and explore mechanisms with greater precision. A second innovation is that we examine why spending patterns differ between mothers and fathers, e.g., altruism, personal returns to investing in children. We find that fathers have a lower WTP for their daughters’ human capital than their sons’ human capital, whereas mothers do not. We also find evidence that altruism plays a role in the mother-father differences: fathers’ WTP for goods that simply bring joy to their daughters is lower than their WTP for such goods for their sons, but mothers’ is not. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29912 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587584 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross,Seema Jayachandran. Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children. 2022. |
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