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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP5472 |
DP5472 Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To | |
Jan C. van Ours | |
发表日期 | 2006-01-23 |
出版年 | 2006 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child?s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and ?quality?. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A number of arguments also suggest that siblings are unlikely to receive equal shares of the resources devoted by parents to their children?s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order and use this to test if siblings are assigned equal shares in the family?s educational resources. We find that they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is a separate negative birth order effect, and that the family size effect does not vanish once we control for birth order. Our findings are robust to a number of specification checks. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Family size Birth order Education Inter-generational effects |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5472 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534330 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jan C. van Ours. DP5472 Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To. 2006. |
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