Family size, adolescents’ schooling and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil

Marteleto, Letícia J.

doi:10.4054/demres.2010.23.15

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“…Therefore, to estimate a distribution of women by age and education in 2010 comparable to 1960, we interpolate household data from the 2008 and 2012 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD), a nationally representative stratified random sample of the Brazilian population that has been collected annually, except during census years, since the late 1970s. PNAD data have been used extensively in the literature on social sciences (see, for example, Marteleto, 2010; Torche, 2010). Since we also estimate potential mortality gains from future changes in the distribution of education, we use the projected education distributions for 2040 prepared by Guimarães (2013).…”

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The Effect of Changes in Educational Composition on Adult Female Mortality in Brazil

2016

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The last century in Brazil was witness to profound changes. Female life expectancy at birth increased from 34.6 years in 1910 to 77.26 years in 2010. At the same time, the educational composition of the population has changed dramatically. In the 1940s, only 25 percent of the children aged 5 to 14 years old were enrolled in school. Currently, nearly all children attend school. We examine the extent to which changes in the age-specific distribution of education have contributed to the decline in adult mortality among women in Brazil. Our analysis follows other applications in the literature to measure the mortality reduction that would occur if exposure to specific risk factors were changed at the counterfactual level. The effects are not trivial: between 1960 and 2010, about 38 percent of the increase in life expectancy at age 30 can be attributed to changes in the educational composition of women. An additional 22 percent increase is expected until 2040.

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The Effect of Changes in Educational Composition on Adult Female Mortality in Brazil

2016

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“…The papers in this special collection that deal with the relation between fertility and social mobility all address the resource dilution hypothesis (Bras, Kok, and Mandemakers 2010;Ferrari and Dalla Zuanna 2010;Kye 2011;Van Bavel et al 2011). A study of Brazil (Marteleto 2010) was recently published in Demographic Research and also focuses on the resource dilution hypothesis but is not part of this special collection. Since Marteleto (2010) is so relevant to the themes of the meeting, and, by coincidence, appeared in Demographic Research around the same time as the the Seminar, we discuss it here as well.…”

Section: Fertility and Social Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A study of Brazil (Marteleto 2010) was recently published in Demographic Research and also focuses on the resource dilution hypothesis but is not part of this special collection. Since Marteleto (2010) is so relevant to the themes of the meeting, and, by coincidence, appeared in Demographic Research around the same time as the the Seminar, we discuss it here as well. These studies all apply advanced quantitative techniques to historical and contemporary data sets to examine how numbers of siblings in the family of origin affect attainment chances, net of the socioeconomic status of the family, and other characteristics.…”

Section: Fertility and Social Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much less empirical work has been done about the diachronic relationship between family size and socioeconomic attainment, even though the evolution of this relationship over time is considered very important in the theoretical literature about the fertility transition (Van Bavel 2006;Dalla Zuanna 2007). The papers in this collection by Bras, Kok, and Mandemakers (2010) and Kye (2011) are exceptions, as is Marteleto (2010). All of these papers examine changes over time in the relationship between family size in childhood and socioeconomic attainment in adulthood.…”

Section: Fertility and Social Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social mobility and demographic behaviour: Long term perspectives

Dribe¹,

Bavel²,

Campbell³

2012

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We introduce a collection of papers that examine interactions between demographic behavior and social mobility via analysis of historical and contemporary longitudinal, individual-and household-level socioeconomic and demographic data. The authors originally presented these papers at "The International Seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior: A Long Term Perspective" held at the California Center for Population Research at UCLA in December 2009, and organized on behalf of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography. We convened the meeting as a means of promoting the use of historical demographic data to address a topic of contemporary relevance that has been the subject of much attention lately: how the inter-generational transmission of socioeconomic status and socioeconomic differentials in demographic behavior interact to shape patterns of inequality over the long term. The papers here focus specifically on relationships among fertility, marriage, migration, and social mobility.

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“…Evidence from other countries suggests that the decline in the sibship size penalty found in the US may not be easily generalizable to other contexts. For example, Marteleto (2010) shows that in Brazil, an adolescent's schooling decreases as sibling size increases and that this negative monotonicity strengthens after the reduction in fertility later in the second-half of the past century. A Chinese case has a slightly more ambiguous but similar implication.…”

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Sibship Size and Educational Attainment: Evidence of Cohort Trends from 26 Low-Fertility Countries

Choi¹,

Taiji²,

Chen³

et al. 2018

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Children with many siblings have lower average educational attainment compared to children raised in smaller families. This disadvantage by sibship size has been observed across many different countries. We know remarkable little, however, about how sibship size disadvantage has changed over time within countries and how such trends vary between countries. Using comparative data from 114 surveys from 26 low-fertility countries, we find an increase of the sibsize disadvantage over time in the majority of countries: between the 1931-40 birth cohort and the 1971-80 birth cohort, 16 out of 26 countries showed a statistically significant increase in the sibship size disadvantage in education, while only two countries -Australia and the UKshowed a statistically measurable reduction in the sibship size disadvantage. In many countries, growing differential fertility by parental education played a substantial role in the increasing disadvantage. We discuss possible explanations and implications of the increased disadvantages and the variation in trends and levels between regions and specific countries.

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Family size, adolescents’ schooling and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil

Cited by 16 publications

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The Effect of Changes in Educational Composition on Adult Female Mortality in Brazil

The Effect of Changes in Educational Composition on Adult Female Mortality in Brazil

Social mobility and demographic behaviour: Long term perspectives

Sibship Size and Educational Attainment: Evidence of Cohort Trends from 26 Low-Fertility Countries

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