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dc.contributor.authorCools, Sara
dc.contributor.authorHart, Rannveig Kaldager
dc.coverage.spatialNorwaynb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-11T09:42:20Z
dc.date.available2019-11-11T09:42:20Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.identifier.issn0809-733X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2627614
dc.description.abstractWhile fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high-quality data from Norwegian administrative registers. Our study sample is all first- or second-borns during the 1960s in Norwegian families with at least two children (approximately 110 000 men and 104 000 women). An additional sibling has a positive effect on male fertility, both by shifting some men into fatherhood and increasing family size. For women, a negative quantum effect emerges, driven by a preference for two rather than three children among women from three-child families. Studying mediators we show that mothers of girls shift relatively less time from market to family work when an additional child is born. We speculate that this scarcity in parents' time makes girls aware of the strains of life in large families, leading them to limit their own number of children in adulthood.nb_NO
dc.description.sponsorshipNorwegian Research Council (Grant number 202442/S20)nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherStatistisk sentralbyrånb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion papers;802
dc.subjectJEL classification: C26nb_NO
dc.subjectJEL classification: J13nb_NO
dc.subjectJEL classification: J22nb_NO
dc.titleThe effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence from IV estimationnb_NO
dc.typeWorking papernb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410::Statistikk: 412nb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber36nb_NO


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