TY  - JOUR
A1  - Marteleto, Leticia
T1  - Family size, adolescents’ schooling and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil
Y1  - 2010/08/20
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 421
EP  - 444
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.15
VL  - 23
IS  - 15
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/15/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/15/23-15.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/15/23-15.pdf
N2  - The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts of adolescents born pre- and post-demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling of Brazilian adolescents. Decomposition analyses of nationally representative data demonstrate that, although a higher proportion of post-demographic transition cohorts live in smaller families, they also suffer a larger disadvantage from being in larger families than pre-demographic transition cohorts. Additional case studies and comparative works are needed to disentangle the mechanisms behind the dynamic association between sibship size and adolescents’ educational attainment found in Brazil.

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