Nacimientos fuera del matrimonio en la historia de Chile: algunos hechos estilizados

José Díaz-Bahamonde (), Francisco Gallego and Jeanne Lafortune

Estudios Públicos, 2016, issue 142, 37-79

Abstract: This paper presents a series of stylized facts about the historical evolution of the rate of illegitimacy in Chile, looking both at aggregate data from 1848 to the present and at department-level data for the 1862-1948 period. The main results suggest that the rate of illegitimacy and marriage are phenomena that change depending on the economic and social structure and the incentives present in different periods rather than being predetermined structural and historical situations. In particular, our results suggest that the sharp increase in the rate of illegitimacy in the period between 1880 and 1920 probably is correlated with urbanization and migration to cities (and agriculture from other sectors). This is not compensated by significant income effects until the early 1920s. In parallel, the ratio of marriages to the total population is also strongly correlated with the sex-ratio and with proxies of economic activity.

Keywords: marriage; out-of-wedlock births; illegitimate children; family economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J12 J13 N30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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