Search Results - subject:"m-demands"

Early Childhood Investments in Human Capital: Parental Resources and Preferences

Bhalotra, Sonia - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2004

) systematically spend less on children. JEL codes: C2 I2 O1 R2 Keywords: altruism, m-demands, intra-household allocation, cash … identified in some earlier studies is limited altruism. Using data from rural Pakistan, m-demands (defined in section 2.2) are … paper to perform a test of 5 This paper offers a useful illustration of the use of m-demands (section 2.2), which …

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Parent Altruism, Cash Transfers and Child Poverty

Bhalotra, Sonia - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2004

This paper investigates the contemporary sharing of household resources between parents and co-resident children, motivated by the increasing popularity of cash transfers targeted at children, and limited evidence of their efficacy. It argues that this provides information on parental altruism...

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