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Family change in Latin America: schooling and labor market implications for children and women

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  • Esteve, Albert
  • Becca, Federica
  • Castro, Andrés

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This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for children’s school attendance and progress and women’s labor force participation. Latin American and Caribbean families and households have undergone substantial changes in recent years while keeping some of their distinctive features unchanged (Esteve et al., 2022; Esteve & Florez-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as the combination of women`s marital status and the type of households in which children reside. We combine references to the literature and own calculations based on Latin American and Caribbean population census samples, available at the Integrated Public-use Microdata Series International (IPUMS) (Minnesota Population Center, 2020). We use data from 25 countries based on the most recent census microdata and, in some instances, historical samples starting in the late 1950s (see Appendix 1).

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  • Esteve, Albert & Becca, Federica & Castro, Andrés, 2023. "Family change in Latin America: schooling and labor market implications for children and women," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120485, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General

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