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The More the Merrier? : The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

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dc.creator Black, Sandra E.
dc.creator Devereux, Paul J.
dc.creator Salvanes, Kjell G.
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:58Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:58Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20535
dc.identifier ppn:396322719
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20535
dc.description Among the perceived inputs in the ?production? of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Our analysis is able to overcome many limitations of the previous literature by using a rich dataset that contains information on the entire population of Norway over an extended period of time and allows us to match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the birth of twins to isolate causation. Like most previous studies, we find a negative correlation between family size and children?s educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes negligible. This finding is robust to the use of twin births as an instrument for family size. In addition, we find that birth order has a significant and large effect on children?s education; children born later in the family obtain less education. These findings suggest the need to revisit economic models of fertility and child ?production?, focusing not only on differences across families but differences within families as well.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1269
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I2
dc.subject J1
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject birth order
dc.subject family size
dc.subject Bildung
dc.subject Familiensoziologie
dc.subject Norwegen
dc.title The More the Merrier? : The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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