Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth across Generations (International Food Policy Research Institute)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080187842X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Knowing how men and women acquire land and human capital is the basis for determining the extent of this gender problem and how to solve it. The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ghanacountries with very different social and cultural traditions. Based on household surveys at each site, the authors examine how these factors affect the distribution of income and spending in the household as a whole and among its individual members. In rural societies, passing down land and providing an education are the main ways parents assure the future welfare of their children. Is the distribution of income and welfare between men and women changing? While many studies have documented that education of women is increasing in developi
Jonna P. Estudillo is an assistant professor of economics at the University of the Philippines School of Economics, Quezon City. Agnes R. Keijiro Otsuka is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development, Tokyo, Japan.. Quisumbing is a senior research fellow at IFPRI
It provides a valuable synthesis and new evidence on land distribution patterns and gender inequality in three countries that are often discussed as development examples. This book examines parental decisions to transfer wealth through schooling investments and land inheritance in three developing countries with different cultural traditions: the Philippines, Indonesia and Ghana The authors expand our understanding of how choices are made in different contexts and shy land reform or education policies might fail to produce intended changes. Collecting and analyzing unique data in three countries, the authors immensely expand our understanding of how these choices are made in different contexts and, more importantly, why land reform or education polices might fail to produce intended changes. (Elizabeth King
Excellent resource Cheryl People interested in issues of how wealth is transferred across generations should read this book. The book has very detailed empirical studies from three countries, Ghana, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It explores how land and schooling may be substitutes for each other and how the patterns of inheritance of land a