Sisters, Siblings, and Mothers: The Effect of Teen-Age Childbearing on Birth Outcomes in a Dynamic Family Context
姐妹、同胞与母亲:动态家庭背景下青少年生育对出生结局的影响
A statistical model of dynamic intrafamily investment behavior incorporating endowment heterogeneity is estimated to evaluate alternative estimation procedures that have exploited family and kinship data. These procedures, which place alternative restrictions on the endowment structure and on behavior, include generalized least squares, fixed-effects based on the children of sisters and siblings, and instrumental variables. The framework is applied to data on birth outcomes,…