From parent to child : intrahousehold allocations and intergenerational relations in the United States
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From parent to child : intrahousehold allocations and intergenerational relations in the United States
(Population and development)
University of Chicago Press, 1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
How do parents allocate human capital among their children? To what extent do parental decisions about resource allocation determine children's eventual economic success? The analyses in this text explore these questions by developing and testing a model in which the earnings of children with different genetic endowments respond differently to investments in human capital. Behrman, Pollak, and Taubman use this model to investigate issues such as parental bias in resource allocations based on gender or birth order; the extent of intergenerational mobility in income, earnings, and schooling in the United States; the relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in determining variations in schooling; and whether parents' distributions offset the intended effects of government programmes designed to subsidize children. In allocating scarce resources, parents face a trade-off between equity and efficiency, between the competing desires to equalize the wealth of their children and to maximize the sum of their earnings.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1: Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 2: Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 3: Do Parents Favor Boys? Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 4: Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 5: The Wealth Model: Efficiency in Education and Distribution in the Family Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 6: A Transaction Cost Approach to Families and Households Robert A. Pollak 7: Tied Transfers and Paternalistic Preferences Robert A. Pollak 8: Is Child Schooling a Poor Proxy for Child Quality? Jere R. Behrman 9: Schooling and Other Human Capital Investments: Can the Effects Be Identified? Jere R. Behrman 10: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 11: The Intergenerational Correlation between Children's Adult Earnings and Their Parents' Income: Results from the Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 12: On Heritability Paul Taubman 13: Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 14: Measuring the Impact of Environmental Policies on the Level and Distribution of Earnings Paul Taubman References Author Index Subject Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226041575
Description
How do parents allocate human capital among their children? To what extent do parental decisions about resource allocation determine children's eventual economic success? The analyses in this text explore these questions by developing and testing a model in which the earnings of children with different genetic endowments respond differently to investments in human capital. Behrman, Pollak and Taubman use this model to investigate issues such as: parental bias in resource allocations based on gender or birth order; the extent of intergenerational mobility in income, earnings and schooling in the United States; the relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in determining variations in schooling; and whether parents' distributions offset the intended effects of government programmes designed to subsidize children. In allocating scarce resources, parents face a trade-off between equity and efficiency, between the competing desires to equalize the wealth of their children and to maximize the sum of their earnings.
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