| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10607 |
| DP10607 Preference for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India | |
| Adriana D. Kugler; Santosh Kumar | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-17 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV results show that children from larger families have lower educational attainment and are less likely to have ever been enrolled and to be currently enrolled in school, even after controlling for parents? characteristics and birth-order of children. The effects are larger for rural, poorer and low-caste families and for families with less educated mothers. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a trade-off for health outcomes. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Quality-quantity trade-off Family size Education Health India |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10607 |
| 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/539439 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Adriana D. Kugler,Santosh Kumar. DP10607 Preference for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India. 2015. |
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