Dads and Daughters. Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children.

Autor/inn/en	Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Jayachandran, Seema
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Dads and Daughters. Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 43 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w29912
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w29912
Schlagwörter	Altruismus; Mutter; Vater; Geld; Kind; Mutter; Uganda; Vater; Ausgaben; Altruismus; Bildungsinvestition; Humankapital; Kind; Vergleichende Analyse; Humankapital; Ausgaben; Bildungsinvestition; Geld; Arbeitspapier; Uganda
Abstract	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.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1