The selectivity of fertility and the determinants of human capital investments : (Record no. 4060)
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| fixed length control field | 02193cam a2200265 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 082131629 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HB 1054.6. |
| Item number | PIT |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HD 6977 |
| Item number | PIT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pitt, Mark Martin, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The selectivity of fertility and the determinants of human capital investments : |
| Remainder of title | parametric and semiparametric estimates / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | Washington, D.C. : |
| Name of publisher | World Bank, |
| Year of publication | 1990. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | c46 p : |
| Other physical details | 1 illustration |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | LSMS working paper, |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In this paper the authors assess the importance of heterogeneity and selective fertility in altering estimates and interpretations of the determinants of the human capital of children. The authors set out a sequential model of human capital investments in children incorporating endogenous fertility and heterogeneity in human capital endowments to illustrate the fertility selection problem and issues of identification. Empirical results based on parametric and semiparametric estimates of selectivity models applied to data on birthweight and schooling in Malaysia indicate that the hypothesis of no fertility selection is strongly rejected, with mothers having higher birthweight children tending to have substantially lower birth probabilities (negative birth selectivity). As a consequence, the positive association between mother's schooling and birthweight is substantially underestimated and the positive effects of delaying childbearing overestimates when birth selectivity is not taken into account. The schooling results indicates strong rejection of the "efficient schooling" model, in which schooling is allocated efficiently across children, but only when the selectivity of fertility is taken into account. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fertility, Human |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Human capital |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | F�econdit�e humaine |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Ressources humaines |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fertility, Human |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Human capital |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rosenzweig, Mark Richard, |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://books.google.com/books?id=nJHpAAAAIAAJ |
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| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| GIMPA Main | GIMPA Main | Reference Section | 2090-10-13 | Donation | HB 1054.6. PIT | GIMPA31015 | Book |