Effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in India
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Keywords
India; Fertility; Family planning; Household; Birth order; Sibling sex composition; Household resource allocation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-02-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2012-02-27 (Development)
- NEP-HRM-2012-02-27 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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