This paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, usingdata from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines. Econometricresults show that interactions between grandparent characteristics and child gendersignificantly affect the distribution of proposed land bequests between sons and daughters.However, grandparents significantly affect gender-specific investments in children'seducation only in resource-constrained families.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 1995Philippines
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 1996Rwanda
This paper reports the findings of an in-depth case study of a highly densely populated area in the Northwest of Rwanda
which has been conducted during the period 1988-1993. It
demonstrates that acute competition for land in a context
characterized by too slow expansion of non-agricultural income
opportunities has resulted in increasingly unequal land distribution
and rapid processes of land dispossession through both operation
of the (illegal) land market and evolution of indigenous tenure
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