Fertility and poverty: An approach from the decomposition of binary data of Fairlie to the case of the city of Medellín
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Fertility and poverty, Probit Model, Decomposition techniques.Abstract
This paper provides and gives a look at the relationship between poverty and fertility in the city of Medellín, Colombia. Using data from the Medellín Quality of Life Survey for 2013 and using the Fairlie methodology, it explains the differences between the two types of population (low and high income) in their decision to have children, basing on the existence of certain factors that facilitate this divergence in the decisions of the groups analyzed, level of schooling, labor participation of the mother, affiliation to pension fund, among others. For this purpose we will analyze the determinants of fertility in families and how they affect poverty. Using the model Probit under Fairlie´s decomposition techniques, we found out that there is approximately 23.3% difference in the probability that households with lower incomes will have more children than households with higher incomes, complying with the above literature.Downloads
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