Family size and children quality : new evidence and new exogenous shocks in the case of Colombian households = Tamaño de la familia y calidad de los niños : nueva evidencia y nuevos choques exógenos en el caso de los hogares colombianos / Román David Zárate.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Documentos CEDE ; 18/Febrero de 2013Publisher: Bogotá : Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 2013Description: 42 páginas : gráficos ; 28 cmContent type: texto Media type: sin mediación Carrier type: volumenISBN: 16575334ISSN: 1657-5334Other title: Tamaño de la familia y calidad de los niños : nueva evidencia y nuevos choques exógenos en el caso de los hogares colombianosSubject(s): Asistencia Escolar -- Aspectos económicos -- Investigaciones -- Colombia | Costo y nivel de vida -- Investigaciones -- Colombia | Niños -- Condiciones económicas | Tamaño de la Familia -- Aspectos económicos -- Investigaciones -- Colombia | Trabajo Infantil -- Investigaciones -- ColombiaDDC classification: 362.7 Online resources: Consulta en línea Abstract: The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topic in the economics of family. However, there is scarce evidence in Latin America, and the literature has not yet explored new mechanisms to explain either positive or null effects of an additional sibling found by different authors in the last ten years. This article addresses these two issues. On the one hand, I construct a simple theoretical model which rationalizes negative and positive effects of an additional sibling due to family interactions. On the other hand, I estimate the effect of family size in Colombia on school lag, school attendance, school dropout and child labor. I use data from the Demographic and Health survey and construct a set of instruments based on the report of the ideal number of children. The novelty of the instruments lies in that unlike most articles which can only estimate the effect from two siblings onwards, I can estimate the effect of a first sibling. I find that for first (second) born children a first (second) sibling generates null or positive effects on the four outcomes but there are negative effects from two (three) siblings onwards on the four outcomes.Abstract: La relación entre el tamaño de la familia y la calidad del hogar ha sido un tema recurrente en la literatura económica. Sin embargo, existe escasa evidencia para América Latina y no hay modelos teóricos que sustenten tanto los efectos positivos como nulos de un hermano adicional encontrados por diferentes autores en la última década.
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The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topic in the economics of family. However, there is scarce evidence in Latin America, and the literature has not yet explored new mechanisms to explain either positive or null effects of an additional sibling found by different authors in the last ten years. This article addresses these two issues. On the one hand, I construct a simple theoretical model which rationalizes negative and positive effects of an additional sibling due to family interactions. On the other hand, I estimate the effect of family size in Colombia on school lag, school attendance, school dropout and child labor. I use data from the Demographic and Health survey and construct a set of instruments based on the report of the ideal number of children. The novelty of the instruments lies in that unlike most articles which can only estimate the effect from two siblings onwards, I can estimate the effect of a first sibling. I find that for first (second) born children a first (second) sibling generates null or positive effects on the four outcomes but there are negative effects from two (three) siblings onwards on the four outcomes.
La relación entre el tamaño de la familia y la calidad del hogar ha sido un tema recurrente en la literatura económica. Sin embargo, existe escasa evidencia para América Latina y no hay modelos teóricos que sustenten tanto los efectos positivos como nulos de un hermano adicional encontrados por diferentes autores en la última década.
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