Expected number of siblings by education during the demographic transition in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rogelio Eduardo Fernandez Menjivar
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/42790
• topic: Demographic transition; Education; Sibling kin relations; Intergenerational transfers; Transição demográfica; Brasil; Levantamentos de vida familiar; Estatística educacional

The process of demographic transition can vary between the different groups that make up a population, for example an educational group. Given that family composition is a product of reproductive behavior and survival, correspondingly its path through transition differs between educational groups, family composition also varies according to these criteria. The purpose of this work is to investigate the relationship between the demographic transition in Brazil and family composition. Occasionally, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between education and the expected number of siblings that a person would have at a certain age. The investigation has an empirical focus. Data from the Brazilian Population Censuses between 1970 and 2010 are used to generate estimates of fertility and mortality functions using indirect estimation techniques. These estimates are then incorporated into an analytical model to produce estimates of sibling availability. This is a fundamental step to be able to study intergenerational transfers in the form of inheritance in Brazil. This work does not cover the topic of inheritance; it is expected to develop this line of research in a next phase. The link between demographic transition and intergenerational transfers is complex and dynamic. This work is technical in nature as it is focused on generating estimates of fertility, mortality and sib availability using indirect techniques and analytical estimation models. Such estimates are essential to be able to carry out more sophisticated studies on the demographic transition and the process of concentration or dispersion of capital in a population.