臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

經濟成長的過程帶來國民所得增加及生育率下降的現象。本研究的目的在探索基於此背景下，台灣家庭資源分配以及子女數與子女人力資本投資之關係。本研究使用1980-1981、1988-1989年行政院主計處家庭收支調查資料，分析家庭生育率的決定因素，以及子女數與子女教育支出間之關係。由於大多數相關的實證文獻以父母親的教育水準、薪資所得等變數控制家庭的社經地位，但其他變數如財富所得亦是決定子女人力資本投資的重要因素，倘若無法控制家庭中非薪資所得的影響，將會使OLS估計式產生遺漏重要變數的偏誤。
故本文即使用家庭收支調查中家庭各項所得的資料，藉以控制家庭社經地位的影響，進而降低研究子女數與子女人力資本之間取捨關係可能產生的內生性問題。實證結果發現：家庭中財富所得亦是影響子女數及子女教育投資的重要變數之一，故在評估家庭規模對子女人力資本投資間影響時，亦應考量家庭非薪資所得的影響，否則將會高估兩者的取捨關係。

We use the 1980-1981 and 1988-1989 Family Income and Expenditure Surveys in Taiwan to estimate the determination of fertility and the effects of the number of children on educational investment per child. We exploit the full information on family incomes and wealth, which is contained in the dataset, to deal with the potential problem of omitted variables bias.
The results indicate that an additional child leads to a decrease in educational expenditure per child by 3-14% in the 1980s. In addition, we find that failure to account for family wealth leads to an overestimate of the quality-quantity tradeoff.

第一章 緒論．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 1
第一節 研究動機
第二節 研究目的
第三節 研究方法
第四節 論文架構
第二章 文獻回顧．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 5
第一節 理論模型
第二節 實證文獻
第三章 研究方法．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 9
第一節 估計策略
第二節 資料來源與樣本選取
第三節 實證模型與變數定義
第四章 實證結果．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 16
第一節 家庭背景對子女數量的影響
第二節 子女數量對子女品質之間的取捨關係
第五章　結論．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 20
附錄．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 22
參考文獻．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．． 25

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