Family size, schooling and child labor in Peru – An empirical analysis
Family size, schooling and child labor in Peru – An empirical analysis
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秘鲁的家庭规模、学校教育和童工——实证分析
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
George Psacharopoulos
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作者：
H. Patrinos;George Psacharopoulos
抽象。本文分析了原住民、兄弟姐妹人数、兄弟姐妹活动和兄弟姐妹年龄结构对儿童学业进展和儿童非学校活动的影响。分析的依据是秘鲁1991年生活水平调查。分析表明，家庭规模很重要。然而，分析也表明了考虑兄弟姐妹活动的重要性。在实证模型的至少一个规格中，未入学的兄弟姐妹的数量被证明是一个重要的控制变量。然而，需要更多的研究，兄弟姐妹之间的互动，他们的活动和他们的年龄结构。换句话说，必须设法考虑到兄弟姐妹的“生命周期效应”对他们的学业成绩和劳动力活动的影响。分析还表明，兄弟姐妹的年龄结构很重要，但与他们的活动有关。也就是说，有更多的弟弟妹妹意味着更少的学校教育，更多的年龄等级扭曲在课堂上和更多的童工。
JEL分类：J22、J23、I21
Abstract. This paper analyzes the effects of being indigenous, number of siblings, sibling activities and sibling age structure on child schooling progress and child non-school activity. The analysis is based on the Peru 1991 Living Standards Survey. The analysis shows that family size is important. However, the analysis also demonstrates the importance of taking into consideration the activities of siblings. The number of siblings not entrolled in school proves to be an important control variable in at least one specification of the empirical model. However, more research is needed on the interactions between siblings, their activities and their age structure. In other words, an attempt must be made to find ways of taking into account the “life cycle effects” of one‘s siblings on their schooling performance and labor force activity. The analysis also shows that the age structure of siblings is important, but in conjunction with their activities. That is, having a greater number of younger siblings implies less schooling, more age-grade distortion in the classroom and more child labor.
JEL classification: J22, J23, I21