Gender differences in land inheritance, schooling and lifetime income: Evidence from the rural Philippines

This article examines the difference in lifetime incomes arising from paren tal preferences in the allocation of land inheritance and investments in sc hooling between sons and daughters in the rural Philippines. Sons are prefe rred with respect to land inheritance, receiving 0.15 additional hectares o f land, while daughters are treated more favourably. in schooling investmen ts, receiving 1.5 more years of schooling. However; differences in both cur rent and life-cycle incomes between sons and daughters are insignificant. T his suggests that Filipino parents allocate intergenerational transfers to equalise incomes among their children, without sacrificing efficiency.