Download This PaperChild Gender and Parental Borrowing: Evidence from India
3 Pages Posted: 28 Mar 2011 Last revised: 22 Feb 2021
Date Written: 2012
Abstract
Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.
Keywords: Gender, Discrimination, Borrowing, Debt, Children, Mother, Father
JEL Classification: O16, D13, J12, O15, O17, G21, I32
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Agier, Isabelle and Guérin, Isabelle and Szafarz, Ariane, Child Gender and Parental Borrowing: Evidence from India (2012). Economics Letters, Vol. 115, No. 3, 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1792872 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1792872
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