Intra-household Competition for Care: The Role of Bequest-regulating Social Norms
Working Papers

Elisabetta Magnani, Garima Verma, Anu Rammohan

We model the allocation of time resources by adult children between competing caring activities - those towards coresiding elderly and those towards coresiding children.

We test the implications of our model for children's school performance by focusing on Indonesia, a country characterized by heterogeneity in social norms, population ageing and reliance on the family for elderly support.