Effects of sibship structure revisited: Evidence from intrafamily resource transfer in Taiwan
Effects of sibship structure revisited: Evidence from intrafamily resource transfer in Taiwan
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DOI：
10.1177/003804070708000201
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Yu, Ruoh-rong
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作者：
Chu, C. Y. Cyrus;Xie, Yu;Yu, Ruoh-rong
许多研究一致发现，兄弟姐妹的大小对教育成果的负面影响。文献中对这些影响提出了三种主要解释：（1）家庭资源的稀释，（2）家庭中每个继承兄弟姐妹的智力环境发生变化，（3）家庭水平上未观察到的选择性。在这篇文章中，作者提出了第四种解释，作为资源稀释假说的延伸：在传统或转型社会中，所有家庭成员的资源都集中在一起，家庭可能会牺牲年长（女性）兄弟姐妹的教育机会，并使用他们的汇款来补偿家庭开支，特别是当有年幼兄弟姐妹时。通过对家庭动力学小组研究（PSFD）数据的分析，作者发现了支持这一解释的经验证据。特别是，他们发现，兄弟姐妹人数的负面影响对于那些有弟弟姐妹篇的女孩来说是最强烈的。他们解释了这种不寻常的高阶互动，涉及同胞的大小，性别，密度和台湾的父权文化背景下的资历，在家庭中通常喜欢男孩女孩。
Numerous studies have consistently found negative effects of sibship size on educational outcomes. Three main explanations of these effects have been offered in the literature: (1) the dilution of family resources, (2) a changing intellectual environment in the family for each succeeding sibling, and (3) unobserved selectivity at the family level. In this article, the authors propose a fourth explanation as an extension of the resource-dilution hypothesis: In a traditional or transitional society where resources from all family members are pooled together, families may sacrifice the educational opportunities of older (female) siblings and use their remittance to compensate the family expenses, particularly when there are younger siblings. With analyses of data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD), the authors found empirical evidence to support this explanation. In particular, they found that the negative effects of sibship size are the strongest for girls with younger brothers and sisters who are spaced apart from them. They interpret this unusual high-order interaction involving sibship size, gender, density, and seniority within the context of Taiwan's patriarchal culture, in which families typically favor boys over girls.