Abstract：Despite the increasing concern about only-

children in low-fertility societies, scientific evidence

on how they perform developmentally relative to

children with siblings has been far from conclusive.

We attribute this inconsistency to the lack of

comparative approach, highlighting the importance of

country's family size context. Using data from the

Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

2000 on 15-year old students and International Sibsize

and Educational Attainment Database (ISEAD) on

adult children, we examine how family socioeconomic

status and various cognitive and noncognitive outcomes

of only-children vary across countries. We find that

only-children's family background and educational

performance relative to children with siblings are

consistently better across a range of cognitive and

non-cognitive outcomes at age 15 in countries

where small families are more common. Their relatively

better performance in cognitive outcomes (e.g.,

reading and math) is largely explained by their

family origin advantage, while the family origin

difference explains only small part of their better

performance in interpersonal outcomes. Our evidence

further suggests that such systematic cross-national

differences in the premium of being an only-child at age

15 is extended to educational attainment in the

adulthood. Lastly, the importance of country's family

size context is attenuated at most modestly by the

indicators of various public policies. Our study

illuminates an important route of intergenerational

transmission of family (dis)advantages through

changing family size in the era of low fertility.

2019年6月25日(火) 12:00～13:00

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https://csrda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/international/ssjda-seminar/

Seongsoo Choi(Sungkyunkwan University,

Republic of Korea)

東京大学本郷キャンパス

社会科学研究所1階 第1会議室