TY - BOOK ID - 134272206 TI - Is it what you Inherited or what you Learnt? : Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal AU - Lambert, Sylvie AU - Ravallion, Martin AU - Van de Walle, Dominique PY - 2011 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems KW - Gender and Health KW - Gender and Law KW - Gender Inequality KW - Intergenerational Linkage KW - Interpersonal Inequality KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Population Policies KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems KW - Senegal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134272206 AB - Institutional features of the African setting-large extended families and imperfect credit and land markets-matter to the equity and efficiency roles played by intergenerational linkages. Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, this paper studies the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult's economic welfare and economic activities. Although intergenerational linkages are evident, the analysis finds a seemingly high degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and the greater economic activity of women. Male-dominated bequests of land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality, although they have effects on the sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and occupation of parents (especially the mother) and their choices about children's schooling are more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, although it is almost entirely explicable in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender differences, with intergenerational linkages coming through the mother rather than the father. ER -