LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON - LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER - PARENTAL RESOURCES AND CHILD HEIGHT
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON - LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER - PARENTAL RESOURCES AND CHILD HEIGHT
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DOI：
10.2307/146131
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发表时间：
1994-09-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
THOMAS, D
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作者：
THOMAS, D
使用来自美国，巴西和加纳的家庭调查数据，我研究了父母教育和儿童身高之间的关系，健康和营养状况的指标。在这三个国家中，母亲的教育程度对女儿的身高影响更大;相比之下，父亲的教育程度对儿子的身高影响更大。显然，家庭资源的分配因子女的性别而异，这些差异也因父母的性别而异。这些结果是相当稳健的，甚至在包括未观察到的家庭固定效应的控制之后仍然存在。在加纳，与其他妇女相比，受教育程度高于丈夫的妇女对女儿身高的影响大于对儿子的影响。在巴西，妇女的非劳动收入对其女儿的健康有积极影响，但对其儿子的健康没有影响。如果父母的相对教育程度和非劳动收入是家庭分配决策的权力指标，那么这些结果，沿着估计收入效应的差异，表明资源分配的性别差异反映了养育子女的技术差异和父母偏好的差异。
Using household survey data from the United States, Brazil, and Ghana, I examine the relationship between parental education and child height, an indicator of health and nutritional status. In all three countries, the education of the mother has a bigger effect on her daughter's height; paternal education, in contrast, has a bigger impact on his son's height. There are, apparently, differences in the allocation of household resources depending on the gender of the child and these differences vary with the gender of the parent. These results are quite robust and persist even after including controls for unobserved household fixed effects. In Ghana, relative to other women, the education of a woman who is better educated than her husband has a bigger impact on the height of her daughter than her son. In Brazil, women's nonlabor income has a positive impact on the health of her daughter but not on her son's health. If relative education of parents and nonlabor income are indicators of power in household allocation decisions, then these results, along with difference-in-difference of estimated income effects, suggest that gender differences in resource allocations reflect both technological differences in child rearing and differences in the preferences of parents.