@article{Bouis:37905,
      recid = {37905},
      author = {Bouis, Howarth E. and Palabrica-Costello, Marilou and  Solon, Orville and Westbrook, Daniel and Limbo, Azucena B.},
      title = {Gender Equality and Investments in Adolescents in the  Rural Philippines},
      address = {1998},
      number = {605-2016-40254},
      series = {Research report},
      pages = {80},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {For some time now researchers at IFPRI and else where have  been studying how resources are allocated within house  holds in developing countries and why it matters from a  policy perspective. Many social and cultural factors, as  well as economic considerations, influence house hold  decisions about the allocation of time, income, assets, and  other resources. The recently published IFPRI book,  Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries:  Models, Methods, and Policy, edited by Lawrence Haddad,  John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, provides an excellent  review of the key relationships and empirical evidence.  Many studies have looked at the way resources are  distributed to men, women, and especially to small  children, but one
age group within the family has been  largely ignored: the adolescents. Adolescence is a
crucial  period in that teen agers can make major contributions to  their families’ welfare
through their labor and earnings,  in and out side the household, but may sacrifice their
own  wishes and future well-being in the process if such  contributions come at the expense of investments in their  education. The research methodology in this report,  combining regression analysis with ethnography, provides a  lesson in how complementarities between methodological  approaches can be exploited. For example, from the  regression analysis one might conclude that boys leave  school earlier than girls to earn money. However, close  questioning of household members makes it clear that the  reason many boys leave school is more cultural than  economic. Poor parents with limited resources for education  tend to direct those resources to the children who have a  strong wish to go to school, more of ten
girls than boys in  the Philippine setting studied here. The research finds  that parents are not unduly influenced by short-term needs  and are ready to make substantial sacrifices in terms of  current consumption in order to invest in their children’s  future. The research also concludes that boys and girls in  this rural area of the Philippines are generally treated  equally, providing a contrast with other Asian settings  where discrimination by gender is common.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37905},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.37905},
}