Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 2, pp. 423-462
This paper investigates how rural families in China use marital and post-marital transfers to compensate their sons for unequal schooling expenditures. Using a common behavioral framework, we derive two methods for estimating the relationship between parental transfers and schooling investments:...