This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children's human capital accumulation. To test the predictions of the model, the paper estimates the impact of having one older sister (as opposed to one older brother) on early childhood development in a sample of rural Kenyan households with otherwise similar family...
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2020/10/27
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS9454
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2020/10/27
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Big Sisters
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human capital
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