Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaChild Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth
In this paper I study the dynamic implications of household decisions that determine fertility and human capital accumulation with a theoretical model built on that of Hazan and Berdugo (2002). The links between the allocation of children's time, together with material resources towards child q...
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Universidad del Pacífico
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| description | In this paper I study the dynamic implications of household decisions that determine fertility and human capital accumulation with a theoretical model built on that of Hazan and Berdugo (2002). The links between the allocation of children's time, together with material resources towards child quality components, such as nutrition and the process of economic development are explored. I ive emphasis to investment in child quality because it has not previously been treated together with allocation of children's time in a dynamic setting. However these need to be dealt with together since they enable us explicitly to consider the possibility that human capital can be accumulated beyond the point at which child labor is effectively (rationally) eliminated, and even beyond that when fertility transition is concluded. I also show that this result can hold even in the absence of altruistic parents (in a unitary framework). Finally I show with these models that Caldwell's hypothesis about the correlation between intergenerational flows of resources and fertility regimes can be explained as being mediated by earning opportunities in educationally-intensive sectors which in turn influence parental incentives to invest in child quality. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO528802022-03-17T18:48:02Z Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth Calidad Infantil, Trabajo infantil, fertilidad y Crecimiento Económico Yalonetzky, Gastón In this paper I study the dynamic implications of household decisions that determine fertility and human capital accumulation with a theoretical model built on that of Hazan and Berdugo (2002). The links between the allocation of children's time, together with material resources towards child quality components, such as nutrition and the process of economic development are explored. I ive emphasis to investment in child quality because it has not previously been treated together with allocation of children's time in a dynamic setting. However these need to be dealt with together since they enable us explicitly to consider the possibility that human capital can be accumulated beyond the point at which child labor is effectively (rationally) eliminated, and even beyond that when fertility transition is concluded. I also show that this result can hold even in the absence of altruistic parents (in a unitary framework). Finally I show with these models that Caldwell's hypothesis about the correlation between intergenerational flows of resources and fertility regimes can be explained as being mediated by earning opportunities in educationally-intensive sectors which in turn influence parental incentives to invest in child quality. Este paper estudia implicaciones dinámicas de aquellas decisiones del hogar que determinan la fecundidad y la acumulación de capital humano, vía la asignación de tiempo infantil y de recursos para componentes de calidad infantil como la nutrición; se concentra en los vínculos entre estas decisiones y el proceso de desarrollo económico. El énfasis se encuentra en la calidad infantil porque aun no ha sido tratado en un contexto dinámico junto con la asignación de tiempo infantil y debería ser considerado puesto que explícitamente permite contemplar la posibilidad de que el capital humano sea acumulado mas allá del punto en que el trabajo infantil es eliminado y aun mas allá de cuando la transición demográfica es concluida. El paper también ilustra un problema de equivalencia observacional por el cual tanto modelos unitarios basados en altruismo paterno como aquellos en el que esta ausente pueden generar cualitativamente los mismos diagramas de fase para la acumulación de capital humano así como otras decisiones del hogar. Finalmente, los dos modelos desarrollados en este paper son contrastados con la teoría de transición demográfica de Caldwell, la cual presta importancia a la dirección del flujo de intergeneracional de riqueza como determinante clave del régimen de fecundidad. El paper sugiere que en lugar de estar vinculados por una relación de causalidad, ambos fenómenos son mutuamente endógenos. 2005-04-10 2022-03-17T18:48:02Z 2022-03-17T18:48:02Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.up.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/549 10.21678/apuntes.56/57.549 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/52880 eng https://revistas.up.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/549/551 Derechos de autor 2017 Apuntes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf Universidad del Pacífico Apuntes. Social Sciences Journal; Apuntes 56 - 57; 61-94 Apuntes. Revista de ciencias sociales; Apuntes 56 - 57; 61-94 2223-1757 0252-1865 |
| spellingShingle | Yalonetzky, Gastón Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title | Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title_full | Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title_fullStr | Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title_short | Child Quality. Child Labor. Fertility and Economic Growth |
| title_sort | child quality. child labor. fertility and economic growth |
| url | https://revistas.up.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/549 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/52880 |