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Defying intuition: bigger families have no significant negative effect on children’s schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Verpoorten, Marijke
  • Alidou, Sahawal

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Many family planning programs are based on the idea that “a small family is a happy family”, or that a reduction in family size enables families to raise investments per child. Intuitively this makes sense: dividing scarce resources among less children, leaves each child with more resources. We prove this intuition wrong.

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  • Verpoorten, Marijke & Alidou, Sahawal, 2019. "Defying intuition: bigger families have no significant negative effect on children’s schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa," IOB Analyses & Policy Briefs 37, Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB).
    • Handle: RePEc:iob:apbrfs:2019004
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    Sub-Saharan Africa; schooling;

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