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| Ribero, Rocio. |
| This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women's bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with child quality. Colombian national household survey data at rural and urban levels are used for the estimations. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Family structure; Fertility; Child quality; Consumer/Household Economics; J00; J12; J13. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28390 |
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| del Boca, Daniela; Ribero, Rocio. |
| Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and child support transfers. We explain visitations and child support transfers using a behavioral model of competitive equilibrium in which both variables are the results of competitive allocations realized in a decentralized noncooperative manner. In our framework the mother has control over visitations and the father has control over child support. Estimates of the model are used to simulate the effects of alternative endowment levels on the proportion of time spent... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Divorce; Visitations; Child support transfers; Consumer/Household Economics; J00; J12; J13. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28477 |
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| Ribero, Rocio. |
| This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals health. Sample statistics show that illness occurs more frequently for women than for men, for less educated than for more educated, for rural than urban residents, and for older individuals. The well educated are considerably taller than those without schooling (6 cm. for males and 4 cm. for females). The empirical evidence confirms that health indicators are related to individual earnings in Colombia. A Mincerian log-earnings equation that includes health indicators as a form of human capital in addition to schooling is specified. When the morbidity variable is... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Earnings; Height; Health indicators; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; I12; J00; J24. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28474 |
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