IMPACT OF FAMILY SIZE ON EDUCATION, CHILD LABOR AND FEMALE LABOR SUPPLY: THE CASE OF ECUADOR

Aquiles Villamil Argote ()
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Aquiles Villamil Argote: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2017, issue 16, 49-80

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of family size on education, child labor and mother’s labor market participation in Ecuador. Parent’s preferences and the sex mix of their children are exploited in an instrumental variables setting to overcome endogeneity problems. The results show that an exogenous variation in family size have a negative impact on education investment and literacy at early ages of the oldest child and mixed effects on child labor depending on the residence area, but no effect in other indicators as school attendance and performance. There is evidence of a negative impact on mother’s labor supply, especially for those with a “head of the household” role.

Keywords: family size; instrumental variables; causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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