Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador

This paper studies the impact of family size on education, child labor and mother’s labor market participation in Ecuador. Parent’s preferences and the sex mix of their children are exploited in an instrumental variables setting to overcome endogeneity problems. The results show that an exogenous va...

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Autor principal: Villamil Argote, Aquiles
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Lenguaje:Español
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Publicado: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS - UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES 2018
Materias:
family size
instrumental variables
causality
tamaño del hogar
variables instrumentales
causalidad
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/REPBA/article/view/1160
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spelling I28-R145-1160_oai2025-02-11 Villamil Argote, Aquiles 2018-09-07 This paper studies the impact of family size on education, child labor and mother’s labor market participation in Ecuador. Parent’s preferences and the sex mix of their children are exploited in an instrumental variables setting to overcome endogeneity problems. The results show that an exogenous variation in family size have a negative impact on education investment and literacy at early ages of the oldest child and mixed effects on child labor depending on the residence area, but no effect in other indicators as school attendance and performance. There is evidence of a negative impact on mother’s labor supply, especially for those with a “head of the household” role. JEL Classification: J13, D13 Keywords: family size, instrumental variables, causality. Este documento estudia el impacto del tamaño del hogar en la educación, el trabajo infantil y la participación laboral de las madres en Ecuador, utilizando las preferencias de los padres y el sexo de sus dos primeros hijos para sortear los problemas de endogeneidad en el marco de la metodología de Variables Instrumentales. Los resultados apuntan hacia un impacto negativo del tamaño del hogar en la inversión en educación y la lectoescritura a edades tempranas para el hijo mayor, mixtos sobre la probabilidad de que éste trabaje por paga, dependiendo de área de residencia y nulos sobre otros indicadores de educación como la asistencia y el desempeño escolar. Además, el impacto sobre la oferta laboral de la madre se estima negativo, especialmente para aquellas que desempeñan el papel de “jefes de hogar”. Clasificación JEL: J13, D13 Palabras clave: tamaño del hogar, variables instrumentales, causalidad.   application/pdf text/html https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/REPBA/article/view/1160 spa eng FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS - UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/REPBA/article/view/1160/1765 https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/REPBA/article/view/1160/1768 Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires; Vol. 11 No. 16 (2017): Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires; 49-80 Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires; Vol. 11 Núm. 16 (2017): Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires; 49-80 1853-1350 1850-6933 urn:issn:1853-1350repba.v0i161 family size instrumental variables causality tamaño del hogar variables instrumentales causalidad Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador Impacto del tamaño del hogar en la educación, el trabajo infantil y la participación laboral de las madres: El caso de Ecuador info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=ecopol&d=1160_oai
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Inglés
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topic family size
instrumental variables
causality
tamaño del hogar
variables instrumentales
causalidad
spellingShingle family size
instrumental variables
causality
tamaño del hogar
variables instrumentales
causalidad
Villamil Argote, Aquiles
Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador
topic_facet family size
instrumental variables
causality
tamaño del hogar
variables instrumentales
causalidad
description This paper studies the impact of family size on education, child labor and mother’s labor market participation in Ecuador. Parent’s preferences and the sex mix of their children are exploited in an instrumental variables setting to overcome endogeneity problems. The results show that an exogenous variation in family size have a negative impact on education investment and literacy at early ages of the oldest child and mixed effects on child labor depending on the residence area, but no effect in other indicators as school attendance and performance. There is evidence of a negative impact on mother’s labor supply, especially for those with a “head of the household” role. JEL Classification: J13, D13 Keywords: family size, instrumental variables, causality.
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title_short Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador
title_full Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador
title_fullStr Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed Impact of family size on education, child labor and female labor supply: The case of Ecuador
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