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Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families

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  • Marcos A. Rangel

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Studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites emerge during a child’s infancy, highlighting the roles of parental characteristics and investment decisions. Exploring the genetics of skin-color and models of intrahousehold allocations, I present evidence that, controlling for observed and unobserved parental characteristics, lightskinned children are more likely to receive investments in formal education than their darkskinned siblings. Even though not denying the importance of borrowing constraints (or other ancestry effects), this suggests that parental expectations regarding differences in the return to human capital investments may play an independent role on the persistence of earnings differentials.

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  • Marcos A. Rangel, 2007. "Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families," Working Papers 0714, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
    • Handle: RePEc:har:wpaper:0714
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