Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87922 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 389
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Office of the Chief Economist, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
The model presented in the paper generates important implications concerning how the allocation of resources between children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income families tend to channel their resources into a few children whereas rich families (and perhaps very poor families as well) tend to allocate resources more evenly. As a result, poor and middle- income families tend to generate more inequality relative to richer families.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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