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Title: Birth Order, Family Size, and Achievement: Family Structure and Wage Determination
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Kessler, Daniel |
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Birth Order, Family Size, and Achievement: Family Structure and Wage Determination Journal of Labor Economics 9,4 (October 1991): 413-426. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535077 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Birth Order; Family Size; Family Structure; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Wage Determination Neither birth order nor family size significantly influences a person's future level or growth rate of wages. For women, however, family size exerts an important effect on future employment status. Women from small families work less than women from large families when they are young (aged 14 to 22) and more than women from large families when they are more mature (aged 22 to 30). This is at least partially attributable to the influence of family size on women's childbearing behavior, which affects their labor force participation decisions. The reduced-form effect of family size on women's employment status is economically interesting and comparable to the effects of other family background characteristics. The lack of significant birth-order effects on achievement found in reduced-form estimation does not imply that a person's birth order is unimportant. (ABI/Inform) |
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Kessler, Daniel. "Birth Order, Family Size, and Achievement: Family Structure and Wage Determination." Journal of Labor Economics 9,4 (October 1991): 413-426.
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