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Title: The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
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Juhn, Chinhui Rubinstein, Yona Zuppann, Charles Andrew |
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Working Paper, University of Houston, October 2012 [Updated November 2014] Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: University of Houston Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Birth Order; Educational Attainment; Family Size; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Labor Force Participation; Noncognitive Skills; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We use two approaches: using twin births as exogenous shocks to family size and utilizing the precise timing of family expansion to separate out family size increases from total family size effects. We find evidence that families face a substantial quantity-quality tradeoff: increases in family size decrease childhood cognitive abilities, decrease parental investment, decrease educational attainment, and decrease measures of adulthood non-cognitive abilities. |
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Juhn, Chinhui, Yona Rubinstein and Charles Andrew Zuppann. "The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." Working Paper, University of Houston, October 2012 [Updated November 2014]. |