This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare (“pure son preference”). The model delivers the widely used linear conditional expectation function under constant...
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2020/05/18
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS9250
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2020/05/18
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility : Theory and Evidence from China and India
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gender bias