1999
DOI: 10.2307/146306
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Effects of Schooling on Fertility, Labor Supply, and Investments in Children, with Evidence from Brazil

Abstract: We explore the mechanisms driving the negative relationship between parents' schooling and fertility. Brazilian data demonstrate strong negative effects of women's schooling on fertility over the first eight years of schooling. We observe no increase in women's labor supply, however, in spite of rapidly rising wages, suggesting that reservation wages rise as fast as market wage.s over this range. We find strong effects of parental schooling on children's .schooling and survival. We conclude that the effects of… Show more

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“…Mean schooling of male heads rose by over two years, from 4.5 to 6.7. As shown by Levison (1991), Barros and Lam (1996), and Lam and Duryea (1999), there is a strong relationship between parental schooling and children's schooling and work in Brazil, so these improvements in adult schooling may have had an important direct role in explaining the rising schooling and falling rates of youth employment.…”
Section: Trends In Youth Employment In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Mean schooling of male heads rose by over two years, from 4.5 to 6.7. As shown by Levison (1991), Barros and Lam (1996), and Lam and Duryea (1999), there is a strong relationship between parental schooling and children's schooling and work in Brazil, so these improvements in adult schooling may have had an important direct role in explaining the rising schooling and falling rates of youth employment.…”
Section: Trends In Youth Employment In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…However, even in absence of labor market returns, women's education can contribute to husbands' social status directly and through higher productivity in status production (Eswaran et al 2013). Another important channel could be increased productivity of maternal time in the production of child human capital (Lam and Duryea 1999), which raises the demand for educated wives if labor market returns to men's education increase (Behrman et al 1999).…”
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“…A variável escolaridade foi categorizada em analfabeta, 1 a 3 anos de estudo, 4 a 7 anos de estudo, 8 a 10 anos de estudo e 11 anos e mais de estudo; a variável cor/raça, em branca e negra; e a variável situação do domicílio, entre urbana e rural. A escolha dessas variáveis foi baseada na literatura demográfica, que aponta escolaridade, cor/raça e situação do domicílio como fatores preponderantes no regime reprodutivo da mulher brasileira (Fundação Seade, 2004;IBGE, 2000;Lam e Duryea, 1999;Wood e Carvalho, 1994).…”
Section: Perda De Informação Das Idades Dos Filhos Nascidos Vivos (Muunclassified
“…Não obstante, diversas pesquisas têm identificado a existência de subgrupos populacionais com altas taxas de fecundidade total, chegando em alguns casos, a seis filhos por mulher. Essas pesquisas quase sempre analisam os diferenciais de fecundidade a partir de escolaridade, renda, região geográfica e raça (Berquó e Cavenaghi, 2005;Horta, Carvalho e Nogueira, 2005;Alves, 2004;Fundação Seade, 2004; IBGE, 2000;Lam e Duryea, 1999), e deixam de lado aspectos relacionados ao trabalho e à ocupação da mulher (Dias Júnior, 2007). Nesse sentido, o objetivo, neste artigo, é examinar como o comportamento reprodutivo, representado pelo número de filhos, pela idade ao ter os filhos e pelo intervalo intergenésico, pode estar associado à ocupação da mulher.…”
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