Defying intuition: bigger families have no significant negative effect on children’s schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Marijke Verpoorten and Sahawal Alidou

No 37, IOB Analyses & Policy Briefs from Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB)

Abstract: Many family planning programs are based on the idea that “a small family is a happy family”, or that a reduction in family size enables families to raise investments per child. Intuitively this makes sense: dividing scarce resources among less children, leaves each child with more resources. We prove this intuition wrong.

Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 3 pages
Date: 2019-04
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