全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5678 Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5678
	DP5678 Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
	Philippe Aghion; John Van Reenen; Daron Acemoğlu; Fabrizio Zilibotti; Claire Lelarge
发表日期	2006-05-15
出版年	2006
语种	英语
摘要	A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality trade-off," then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital, higher earnings,and, at the macro level, promote economic development. Ordinary least squares regression estimates and a large theoretical literature suggests that this is indeed the case. This paper presents new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and preferences for a mixed sibling-sex composition, as well as ethnic differences in the effects of these variables and preferences for male births in some ethnic groups. We use these sources of variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this analysis, we constructed a unique matched data set linking Israeli Census data with information on the demographic structure of families drawn from a population registry. Our results show no evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off, though some estimates from one sub-sample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Child quality Child quantity
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5678
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/534523
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Philippe Aghion,John Van Reenen,Daron Acemoğlu,et al. DP5678 Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm. 2006.