Family Size and Educational Attainment: Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
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Family Size and Educational Attainment : Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation. / Blaabæk, Ea Hoppe; Jæger, Mads Meier; Molitoris, Joseph John.
I: European Journal of Population, Bind 36, 2020, s. 575–600.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Family Size and Educational Attainment
T2 - Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
AU - Blaabæk, Ea Hoppe
AU - Jæger, Mads Meier
AU - Molitoris, Joseph John
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper analyses the effect of family size on children’s educational attainment using a new research design that combines fixed effects and instrumental variable (IV) approaches. We use (a) data on first cousins who belong to the same extended family but to different nuclear families to control for extended family fixed effects and (b) variation in in-married spouses’ number of siblings (a proxy for their fecundity and preferences) as an IV for variation in family size within extended families. We find that family size has a negative causal effect on educational attainment and, moreover, that the negative effect is smaller in families with stronger social ties. Our results suggest that contextual characteristics outside the nuclear family moderate the negative effect of family size on children’s educational attainment.
AB - This paper analyses the effect of family size on children’s educational attainment using a new research design that combines fixed effects and instrumental variable (IV) approaches. We use (a) data on first cousins who belong to the same extended family but to different nuclear families to control for extended family fixed effects and (b) variation in in-married spouses’ number of siblings (a proxy for their fecundity and preferences) as an IV for variation in family size within extended families. We find that family size has a negative causal effect on educational attainment and, moreover, that the negative effect is smaller in families with stronger social ties. Our results suggest that contextual characteristics outside the nuclear family moderate the negative effect of family size on children’s educational attainment.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Family size
KW - Resource dilution
KW - Educational attainment
KW - Fixed effects
KW - Instrumental variables
KW - Contexts
U2 - 10.1007/s10680-019-09543-y
DO - 10.1007/s10680-019-09543-y
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32704243
VL - 36
SP - 575
EP - 600
JO - European Journal of Population
JF - European Journal of Population
SN - 0168-6577
ER -
ID: 212122536