Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investments in the rural Philippines

This paper examines the preferences of parents with respect to the allocati on of land and investments in schooling between sons and daughters in two g enerations of households in the rural Philippines. In the older generation, better-educated fathers prefer to invest in sons' schooling, while land-ow ning mothers preferentially bestow land to daughters. While gender preferen ce in relation to parental resources has disappeared in the child generatio n, sons are preferred with respect to land inheritance, while daughters are treated more favorably in schooling investments.