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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 619
Verlag: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Zusammenfassung: 
In this note, I address the trade-off between children’s health and parental preference toward similarity with children. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children’s health problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a result, the relationship between parental wealth and children’s health includes decreasing portions. Siblings health inequality is also nonmonotonically related to parental wealth, if parents discriminate in favor of more similar children.
Schlagwörter: 
inbreeding
genetic distance
health inequality
JEL: 
J12
J13
N30
Dokumentart: 
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