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Title: The Impacts of Family Size on Investment in Child Quality

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Using multiple births as an exogenous shift in family size, I investigate the impact of the number of children on child investment and child well being. Using data from the 1980 US Census Five-Percent Public Use Micro Sample, 2SLS results demonstrate that parents facing a change in family size reallocate resources in a way consistent with Becker’s Quantity & Quality model. A larger family generated by a twin on a later birth reduces the likelihood that older children attend private school, reduces the mother’s labor force participation, and increases the likelihood that parents divorce. The impact of family size on measures of child well being, such as educational attainment is less clear. The results indicate that for both measures of child investment and child well being, the 2SLS estimates are statistically distinguishable from OLS estimates indicating an omitted variables bias in the single equation model.

Url: http://www.eco.uc3m.es/~jcaceres/workingQQ.pdf

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Authors: Caceres-Delpiano, Julio

Publisher: Universidad Carlos III

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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