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Investing Parent’s Preferences on Quality and Quantity of Their Children: a Case Study of Iranian Society, from 1385 to 1390

Demneh, Niloufar | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 48969 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Fatemi Ardestani, Farshad
  7. Abstract:
  8. This thesis aims to the study of quality-quantity trade off in the family through investigating the effects of family size and birth order on their educational attainment. The latter has been chosen as a criteria for measuring the quality; to measure the effects of quantity we have used the twins for the instrumental variable as an endogenous shock in the family size to reduce bias that happens as a result of omitted variables bias and to measure the effect of family size on it’s quality more accurately. We have also used censored regression to eliminate the bias of student children in the sample.In addition to concentrating on the differences between children of different family sizes we have noticed the differences caused by the birth order effect. To investigate the effect of birth order on the educational attainment, the relationship between these variables has been studied separately in families with different sizes. The results show that there is no negative casual link between the family size and children’s educational attainment. On the other hand we reject the common belief that a large family results in poor human capital in the family. We also show that in families with an specific size a negative relationship between birth order and educational attainment can be observed; this relationship in larger families turns into a sagittal relationship
  9. Keywords:
  10. Causality Relationship ; Instrumental Variable (IV)Method

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