Norms of reciprocity and human capital formation in a poor patriarchal household
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If gifts are reciprocated in the future, intra-household distribution of resources will depend on premarital gifts such as dowry, bride-price and parents’ gifts to a child such as schooling and nurturing. If such social norms of reciprocity exist, parental income effects on their child’s human capital will be asymmetric, and the effect will depend on the amount of intra-household transfers made before childbirth. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: J1; D1; O12; D63
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