Universidad Pública de Navarra, Department of Economics, Campus de Arrosadia, 31006, Pamplona, Spain.
Demography. 2010 Feb;47(1):249-68. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0089.
This article investigates the possible existence of a nonlinear link between female disadvantage in natality and education. To this end, we devise a theoretical model based on the key role of social interaction in explaining people's acquisition of preferences, which justifies the existence of a nonmonotonic relationship between female disadvantage in natality and education. The empirical validity of the proposed model is examined for the case of India, using district-level data. In this context, our econometric analysis pays particular attention to the role of spatial dependence to avoid any potential problems of misspecification. The results confirm that the relationship between the sex ratio at birth and education in India follows an inverted U-shape. This finding is robust to the inclusion of additional explanatory variables in the analysis, and to the choice of the spatial weight matrix used to quantify the spatial interdependence between the sample districts.
本文探讨了女性在生育和教育方面的劣势之间可能存在非线性联系。为此，我们设计了一个理论模型，该模型基于社会互动在解释人们偏好形成方面的关键作用，从而证明了女性在生育和教育方面的劣势之间存在非单调关系。我们使用地区层面的数据，对印度的案例进行了模型实证验证。在这种情况下，我们的计量经济学分析特别关注空间相关性的作用，以避免任何潜在的Specification 问题。结果证实，印度的出生性别比与教育之间的关系呈倒 U 型。这一发现对纳入分析的其他解释变量以及用于量化样本地区之间空间相互依存关系的空间权重矩阵的选择都是稳健的。
