Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth across Generations (International Food Policy Research Institute)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080187842X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Quisumbing is a senior research fellow at IFPRI. Jonna P. Agnes R. Keijiro Otsuka is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development, Tokyo, Japan.. Estudillo is an assistant professor of economics at the University of the Philippines School of Economics, Quez
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. 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. 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. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and daughters will earn over their lifetimes. The authors conclude that there is no conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender equity.The broad-based analysis will interest scholars in economics, anthropology, gender studies, sociology, and area studies.. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption of labor-intensive agricultural technologies, to extend and strengthen school systems in rural areas, to promote competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate
Excellent resource 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 and schooling differ for sons and daughters. While the book has some sections that provide economic analysis, much of the book is accessible to anyone interested in these issues.
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. (Choice)How parents around the world pass on wealth to their children, whether land or education, affects the future of next generations. The analysis is grounded solidly in empirical fact